Thai EFL Students’ Perspectives and Expectations on Learning English Online
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The research aimed to explore the perspectives and expectations of 107 students from the Faculty of Technical Education, Faculty of Engineering, and Faculty of Business Administration and Information Technology at RMUTI, Khon Kaen Campus, on learning English online. The tool consisted of a three-part questionnaire which was utilized as a data collection instrument in the first two parts aimed to reveal students’ perspectives towards teachers’ online teaching effectiveness and teachers’ effectiveness in teaching online courses, and the last part focused on the problems and obstacles with online learning and suggestions from students. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and thematic analysis.
The results showed that students had a positive experience of learning English online with a mean score of =3.70. The students’ perspective towards the effectiveness of teachers’ teaching English online was also positive ( = 3.87), which addressed the first research objective. For further suggestions to online learning, 21.4 percent of the students suggested an improvement in class management and teaching styles of the teachers, which addressed the second research objective. The responses revealed that many desired teachers to be more interactive during online classes. However, the methods in online teaching still needed to be improved to have more interactive with the online learners.
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