Patrapon Dodyim. English language needs of the Golden Jubilee Royal Goldsmith College students. Master's Degree(Applied Linguistics - English for Science and Technology). King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang. Central Library. : King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, 2015.
English language needs of the Golden Jubilee Royal Goldsmith College students
Abstract:
The objectives of this study were to study the English language skill needs and to study the English language topic needs of Vocational Certificate Level students at Golden Jubilee Royal Goldsmith College. The sample consisted of 250 Vocational Certificate Level students (98 first year students, 102 second year students, and 50 third year students) which were selected by using stratified random sampling. The instrument was a questionnaire used to survey the English language needs of Vocational Certificate Level students who studied in the academic year 2012 at Golden Jubilee Royal Goldsmith College. Descriptive statistics was used to find the arithmetic means, frequencies, percentages, and standard deviations. The results of this study revealed that most students needed English listening skill in the highest mean score. Interestingly, most students needed listening to English conversations in class, watching and listening to movies in English, and watching and listening to music or music videos in English at great level. It was also found that most of students needs in English language topics were at great level, interestingly, all of them needed top ten of the following English language topics. There were art, songs, seasons, design, culture, nature, music, dramas, environment, and religions that these topics were concerned directly with art works in goldsmith and jewelry
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