THE ACTION RESEARCH FOR PROMOTION THE INTERN EXPERIENCE’S STUDENT OF THAI LANGUAGE TEACHING IN THE METACOGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS STUDYING THAI LANGUAGE

Abstract

The purposes of this research were (1) to study the use of action research to promote professional Thai language professional teacher experience practicing students’ metacognition development of students studying Thai language; (2) to assess metacognition of students studying Thai language; and (3) to study the relationship of metacognition and learning achievement of students studying Thai language. The target group consisted of 5 fifth year students who were undertaking the teacher professional experience practicum in the Thai Language Program of the Faculty of Education, Chiang Mai University; and 225 secondary school students in five classrooms, each of which containing 45 students, of five schools where
the student teachers had their practicum during the 2019 academic year. The instruments used to collect data were (1) a knowledge adjustment training plan for professional experience practicing students and mentors; (2) a quality verification form for learning management plans using metacognitive strategies of professional experience practicing students; (3) a teaching supervision form for supervision of practicing student’s teaching with the use of metacognitive strategies; (4) a reflective thinking form for professional experience practicing students; (5) a student’s metacognition measurement and evaluation form; (6) a student’s metacognition observation form; (7) a test of student’s learning achievement, (8) a reflective thinking form for students learning with the use of metacognitive strategies; and (9) a student interview form. The researcher designed and planned the research using the action research process which was the use of PAOR circuits or Plan-Act-Observe-Reflect. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics including the mean, standard deviation, percentage, Pearson product–moment correlation coefficient, and effect size; while qualitative data were analyzed with descriptive narration method. Research findings could be concluded as follows:
1. The results of using action research to promote professional Thai language professional teacher experience practicing students’ metacognition development of students studying Thai language is the use of PAOR circuits or Plan-Act-Observe-Reflect. In the development of students, the process was divided into 3 main circuits, which were circuit 1: organizing a seminar training to adjust the students’ background knowledge; circuit 2: creating and developing instructional management plans; and circuit 3: actual teaching practice.
2. Regarding the metacognition assessment results of students in Thai language, when the total score was considered, it was found that the students’ post-learning metacognition mean score was 3.99, which was 79.80 % of the total score. Also, the students post-learning metacognition mean score was increased over their pre-learning counterpart mean score with the overall size effect (d) of 0.32, which was considered as increasing at the moderate level.
3. The correlation coefficients of learning achievement and metacognition scores of students in the five schools ranged from 0.25 to 0.68, which were at the low to moderate levels.