Development Computer Website for Increasing Chinese Listening, Reading and Grammar Skills of the First-Year Students: A Case Study in School of Sinology, Mae Fah Luang University

Abstract

This research aims to: 1) develop a computer website that affects listeners’ Chinese listening, reading, and grammatical ability development of 1st year MFU students, School of Sinology, 2) to compare students’ learning achievements after using a website for the development of Chinese listening, reading, and grammatical ability of 1st year MFU students, School of Sinology, 3) to study the students’ satisfaction towards the teaching by integrating the computer website as a learning tool to enhance Chinese listening, reading, and grammatical abilities. The sample group is the 1st year students from the school of Sinology, Mae Fah Luang University who enrolled Foundation Chinese I in the 1st semester, 2018 for 193 students in total. The tools used in this research are as follows; 1) The computer website for the development of Chinese listening, reading, and grammatical abilities, 2) Chinese listening, reading, and grammatical tests after using a website for Chinese development, 3) The assessment of satisfaction of the students towards the website for Chinese development. The statistical analysis used to synthesize the data are Mean, Standard Deviation, and One sample T-Test.

The results were found as follows; 1) Website system development can respond to the users very well. Features or functionality are satisfied to the need of students, and make students have more enthusiastic in practicing Chinese language skills. 2) Comparing to 80 percent criteria, the students’ learning achievements after using a website for the development of Chinese listening, reading, and grammatical abilities have higher statistical significance at .05. If each aspect is brought into consideration, it was found that the results from grammatical, reading, and listening tests which statistical significance is higher than the criteria up to 80 percent in every aspect at .05. 3) The students’ overall average score on satisfaction after using the computer website for the development of Chinese listening, reading, and grammatical abilities is 3.88. In other words, the students’ satisfaction is considerably high and the overall Standard Deviation is 0.76 which shown that the students’ satisfaction goes in the same direction or is quite conformable.