Attitudes Towards the Vietnamese Language and the Language Choice of Vietnamese Language According to the Domain of Language Use of Thai-Vietnamese People of Three Age Groups in That Phanom District Nakhon Phanom Province

Abstract

These quantitative research objectives were investigating the attitudes towards the Vietnamese language and the choice of Vietnamese language according to the domain of language use of Thais- Vietnamese descent in 3 age groups in That Phanom District. Nakhon Phanom Province. The research instrument is a questionnaire. The sampling method was purposive sampling and consisted 90 Thais- Vietnamese in 3 age ranges, such as under 25 years old group, between 30-55 years old group, and over 60 years old group. For the data analysis, the statistical data, such as Frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, f-test, and Chi-square.

          The finding are follows: 1) Thai-Vietnamese under 25 years old group and over 60 years old group and over have different attitudes towards the Vietnamese language from both negative questions and positive questions at the statistical significance at the .05 level and 2) The age of Thai-Vietnamese is related to the choice of Vietnamese language with a relatively low to a high level of correlation, this depends on the ethnicity of the conversation participants. When considering the trend in language choice, it was found that every age group almost never uses Vietnamese. If they choose to use Vietnamese, they will use it mixed with Lao-Isan, Thai, or a mix of all three languages. There is also a trend that every age group will choose to use Thai more.