Development of an application for testing basic Thai vocabulary activities for foreign students
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The Thai basic vocabulary test will help teachers determine whether foreign students have enough basic Thai vocabulary to communicate their stories, as well as information on how to properly organize teaching and learning. The objectives of this research are to design and determine the effectiveness of the application of Thai basic vocabulary language test activities for foreign students. The sample group was 60 foreign students studying in the second semester of the academic year 2019 of Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University. The results of content design based on the learning design and multimedia development principles of the ADDIE Model were 5 test activities, each set consists of 20 questions, total of 100 questions. The details of each set are as followings: set 1 measure the relationship of speech with pictures, set 2 measures the relationship of pictures with words or groups of words (phrases), set 3 is about dissimilarity, set 4 is about differentiation, and set 5 measures the comprehension of the meaning of sentence. The results of the first performance review by experts showed the content accuracy index (CVI) of 0.90 and the second performance review by experts showed the CVI of 0.96. The result of confident value test (test-retest) was 0.82. The suitability test of application design, content, activities, and overview, were found to be at the most appropriate level. The results of the experiment showed that the score after learning was significantly higher than the score before learning at the 0.01 level. The application of Thai basic vocabulary language test activities for foreign students is therefore suitable to be used as a tool for measuring knowledge of words and developed as a standardized tool for the benefit of learners, instructors, and educational institutions that offer Thai class as a foreign language class.
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