กลวิธีการสื่อสารในการพูดภาษาสเปนของผู้เรียนชาวไทย
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The objective of this research is to study strategies used by Thai learners in Spanish oral communication, by comparing the selection of strategies by Thai learners from different Spanish proficiency levels. Moreover, the research also aims to study the effectiveness of each type of Communication Strategies (CS) used by learners from different Spanish proficiency levels and with different frequency of use. The sample group consists of 8 students from Spanish major, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. The main instruments of this research are a self-assessment questionnaire concerning the Frequency in Using CS and recorded conversations between each learner of the sample group and a Spanish native speaker with a duration about 10 minutes per learner. After transcribing the conversations, the researcher analyzes the data and summarizes the results.
The results reveal that Thai students use Achievement Strategies for solving the speaking problems the most at 85.12%. To specify, the most common strategy used is mumbling at 57.17%, followed by self-repair at 9.62%. The proficiency level shows no effect on the selection of CS. However, the learners with a higher level of Spanish tend to select strategies which involve the use of the target language, and meanwhile lower-level learners often use strategies related to their mother tongue language or another second language. The finding also indicates that higher-level learners have a higher percentage of the effective use of CS, which coincides with results from other investigations. Considering the frequency of use, the results reveal that learners from A1-A2 levels with a high frequency in using CS show higher percentage of effective use of CS than those from the same proficiency level but with a low frequency of use. However, in case of learners from B1-B2 levels the frequency is not a factor which affects the communication effectiveness. The results also point out that self-repair has the highest percentage of effectiveness at 100% and code switching has the lowest percentage at 30%.
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