Electronic Information Bank for Insightful Usage of Thai Language by Students in a Variety of Contexts: Politics and Government:Society Religion and Culture; Entertainment and Economics
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The research objectives were to 1) search, collect and analyze the samples on Thai language usage with meaning distortions in a variety of contexts; 2) develop the “Electronic Information Bank for Insightful Usage of Thai Language by Students in a Variety of Contexts: Politics and Government; Society Religion and Culture; Entertainment and Economics”; 3) study the usage of the “Electronic Information Bank”. Using mixed methods, the research framework based on the concepts of language corpus’ benefits, semantical analysis and IT application. The research area included 5 Rajabhat Universities in Bangkok. The sample were 10 Thai language experts and 100 undergraduate students in Thai language program. The research tools included the analysis table of samples on Thai language usage, the questionnaires and interview forms for experts, the self-evaluation activities and satisfaction questionnaire for students, and the programs: Blogger.com - Google Form. The data were analyzed, using means, percentage, S.D., content analysis and descriptive writing.
The findings revealed that 1) 20 samples of Thai language usage with meaning distortions were selected, grouped, analyzed and designed the activities in 4 contexts: politics and government; society, religion and culture; entertainment; and economy, with 5 samples in each context, according to 70 % of experts’ opinions; 2) the “Electronic Information Bank for Insightful Usage of Thai Language by Students in a Variety of Contexts: Politics and Government; Society Religion and Culture; Entertainment and Economics” was developed in form of weblog with 5 main menus, situated at the URL: https://thaibyjananya.blogspot.com ;3) the usage study showed students’ abilities to successfully fulfill the self-evaluation activities, both multiple choices tests and the open-ended. Most of them were satisfied with the weblog at high level for both the content-utility and the format-presentation, at the average of 4.48 and 4.35 respectively.
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