A STUDY OF GUIDELINES IN LINGUISTIC LEARNING AND TEACHING FOR MASTER’S DEGREE STUDENTS IN FACULTY OF HUMANITIES MAHACHULALONGKORNRAJAVIDYALAYA UNIVERSITY

Abstract

This research aims 1) to study the guidelines of linguistic learning and teaching for Master's Degree students in Faculty of Humanities Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, 2) to compare the opinions on the guidelines of linguistic learning and teaching for Master's Degree students in Faculty of Humanities Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University classified by personal factors, 3) to study obstacles and suggestions for guidelines of linguistic learning and teaching for Master's Degree students in Faculty of Humanities Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. The research method is mixed research consisting of quantitative research and qualitative research.  The quantitative research was focused on 59 students who studied linguistic in Faculty of Humanities Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University.  The instrument used in the research was a questionnaire and qualitative research was conducted by in-depth interviews with 9 specific key informants, data analysis is used by contextual analysis and data conclusion by way of analysis and synthesis of data obtained. The Result of Research was found that : Level of students opinions toward the guidelines of linguistic learning and teaching had the overall opinions at a high level with mean of 3.62, when considering each side, it was found that the opinions were at a high level in all, there were no significant differences in gender, age, year class after a comparative study of opinions on guidelines of linguistic learning and teaching therefore the hypothesis set has to be rejected. Problems, obstacles and suggestions for studying the guidelines of linguistic learning and teaching are :  the expertise with a solid understanding of the subject matter of the thesis should be chosen by the institute both internally  and externally  to advise graduate students;   the curriculum should be added more linguistic study for students who have limited knowledge of the language;  teaching tools are not enough;  the teacher should meet the students more often because the students did not know much about linguistic media;  students do not understand the evaluation of their learning result on the students  who are less enthusiastic or pay attention to the problems that will occur which will affect the learning of the students themselves.  There should be a proper way to evaluate step by step giving the students a grasp of the grading process in order to understand and correct the defect which will be a great benefit to the students.