Developing Digital Lessons on Chinese Vocabulary for Students using Malay Dialects in the Three Southern Border Provinces of Thailand

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to develop digital lessons on Chinese vocabulary for students speaking Malay in the three southern border provinces 2) to study the learning achievement of students before and after studying with digital lessons on Chinese vocabulary and 3) to study students' satisfaction with the digital lessons on Chinese vocabulary. The sampling group consisted of 30 students enrolled in the Chinese language program at three different universities: Yala Rajabhat University, Prince of Songkla University Pattani Campus, and Narathiwat Rajanagarindra University. The research tools were digital lessons on Chinese vocabulary, pre-test and post-test, students’ satisfaction questionnaires. The data were analyzed by efficiency values (E1/E2), mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The results showed that the efficiency of digital lessons on Chinese vocabulary was 83.78/81.44, which is higher than the specified criteria of 80/80. The evaluation of digital lessons on Chinese vocabulary from experts was at a high level, content (M= 4.53, S.D. = 0.36) and technique (M = 4.54, S.D. = 0.36) 2) students' learning achievement after learning was significantly higher than before studying with a statistically significant difference at the.05 level. and 3) the students’ satisfaction with the digital lessons on Chinese vocabulary was at the highest level (M = 4.51, S.D. = 0.16).