A Study of the Ancient Chinese Autonomous Learning Ability of Thai University Students and Its Correlation with Academic Achievement
Keywords:
Thai University Students, Ancient Chinese, Autonomous Learning Ability, CorrelationAbstract
This article takes the ancient Chinese learners of the teaching Chinese language major of Mae Fah Luang University as an example, and adopts a mixed research method combining questionnaire survey and sample interview to investigate and analyze the autonomous learning ability of ancient Chinese among Thai university students, and discusses the relationship between their autonomous learning ability and academic achievement of ancient Chinese. The study shows that: 1) Thai university students generally have a certain autonomous learning ability of ancient Chinese. Among the five dimensions of autonomous learning ability of ancient Chinese, the ability to determine learning goals is relatively weak, and the ability to choose learning methods and skills is also relatively weak. 2) The main problems of Thai university students’ autonomous learning ability of ancient Chinese in various dimensions are as follows: they are not clear about their own learning goals; they lack the ability to decide the content of extracurricular learning, and the awareness in formulating study plans are still relatively weak and executive power is not strong enough, and they are resistant to what they are not good at; they are good at using affective strategies, memory strategies and compensatory strategies, but needs to be strengthened in the use of metacognitive strategies, the ability to use social strategies and cognitive strategies are still relatively weak; although they have a certain ability to monitor the learning process, they still need to strengthen their ability to discover, analyze and solve problems, and at the same time, there is a strong dependence on teachers; the way to evaluate their ancient Chinese ability is concentrated and single. 3) Both the overall autonomous learning ability and the autonomous learning ability of each dimension of ancient Chinese of Thai university students are positively correlated with the learners’ academic achievement. Finally, based on the above findings, we put forward teaching suggestions for cultivating or improving the autonomous learning ability of ancient Chinese among Thai university students.
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