Communicative language teaching in the Thai classroom context : teacher's and students' attitudes and perceptions on the applicability of CLT
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Sayumpoo Khunbankong (2015). Communicative language teaching in the Thai classroom context : teacher's and students' attitudes and perceptions on the applicability of CLT. Retrieved from: https://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/6386.
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Communicative language teaching in the Thai classroom context : teacher's and students' attitudes and perceptions on the applicability of CLT
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This study investigated teachers’ and learners’ perspective towards the
Communicative Language Teaching Approach (CLT). The purpose of this study is
to investigate the attitudes of Thai teachers and the perceptions of Thai students
towards aspects of teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) based on CLT,
and whether or not CLT is applicable for teaching English in the Thai classroom
context. Twelve Thai EFL teachers and 376 Thai EFL students from twelve
secondary public schools in Bangkok, Thailand were participants. Based on both the
quantitative and qualitative approaches, questionnaires were conducted in order to
investigate the teachers’ and learners’ attitudes and perceptions towards CLT.
Moreover, individual telephone interviews were conducted to study the teachers’
perceptions of the applicability of teaching CLT in the Thai classroom context.
The results show that both the teachers and students have positive, favorable
attitudes towards CLT. They claimed that CLT is applicable for a Thai classroom
context. However, the findings further reveal that bringing CLT into practice still has
some limitations in terms of class size, and students’ proficiency. Further
investigation on how these limitations can be taken into account when applying CLT
to teach in the Thai classroom context is needed.
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Thesis (M.A. (Language and Commuincation))--National Institute of Development Administration, 2015