Teaching the “Knowing Thai Music Course” for Chinese Students by using “A Brief Thai Music Text Book”

Abstract

       The objectives of research were to: 1) Study Thai music for writing a book entitled “A Brief Thai Music Text Book”, 2) Teaching Knowing Thai music course for Chinese students by using the “Thai Music Guide Book” and 3) Measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of teaching Thai Music by using A Brief Thai Music Text Book
       Research methodology used for this research is a quantitative experimental research using only experimental group without control group. The 20 sample are drawn by systematic sampling from 100 freshmen students of Academy of Music and Dance, Hebei University of Communications, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, People Republic of China.
       Research finding were: 1) Researcher developed “A Brief Thai Music Text Book” consists of five chapters: Introduction, principle of Thai music, musical instruments, Thai ensembles, musical repertoire and included is a CD sound of instruments, sound of ensembles and sound of some specific kind of music. 2) Researcher constructed the lesson plans and taught 20 Chinese students the course of knowing Thai music by using “A Brief Thai Music Text Book” for 12 lessons. 3) The effectiveness of learning Thai music by using “A Brief Thai Music Text Book” found that “A Brief Thai Music Text Book” has high efficiency for using to teach Chinese students in an experimenting group with score (of formative and summative test) 80/88 or in very good level which means “A Brief Thai Music Text Book” is an effective tool for teaching Chinese students.