Opinions of Graduates towards Teaching English for Academic and Occupational Purposes Program

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study the students’ opinions on the appropriation of the learning and teaching management, the appropriation of the course content, and the level of course content application. Populations in the study were 80 students from batch 1 - 4 of Teaching English for Academic and Occupational Purposes Program at Suratthani Rajabhat University. The research tool was the opinion questionnaire with reliability index at 0.78. Statistics used were mean and standard deviation.
The results of the research showed that the appropriation of the learning and teaching management, the appropriation of the course content, and the level of course content application were all in the very high level with the mean at 4.53, 4.70 and 4.62, respectively. In conclusion, the curriculum clearly showed its most accountability and worth continuing the program. A further implementation of the curriculum was recommended on certain conditions. The curriculum should be designed to include the study of English research methodology at the beginning of the second semester of the first year. Additionally, a new course named English Teacher in ASEAN countries should be introduced into the curriculum.