Creating Supplementary Book About Thai Language in Basic Business “Thai Fruit” to Improve Reading Skills for Chinese Students

Abstract

This thesis is intended to create a fundamental Business Thai supplementary reading book, “Thai Fruit” for Chinese students, which is an experimental study. The researcher conducted tools into nine chapters, including Introduction, Vocabulary, Supplementary Reading, Tests and Post-Tests, Chapter One: Business Law about Fruit between Thailand and China; Chapter Two: Business Visas; Chapter Three: Thai Fruit Economic Geography; Chapter Four: Economic Fruits in four Parts of Thailand; Chapter Five: Sale of Fruit Beverage; Chapter Six: The Export of Processed Fruit Products; Chapter Seven: Business Contract of Trading; Chapter Eight: Fruit Business Form, and Chapter Nine: Online Medias and Business Letters about Fruits. With the verification, the tools approved by advisors and specialists are brought to test the targeted group.

The findings found out that a fundamental Business Thai supplementary reading book, “Thai Fruit” for improving reading skills of Chinese Students, has the performance value of E1/E2= 79.45/78.00. This value has passed the criteria of     E1/E2 = 75/75. This shows that the usage of this book can increase the knowledge in Business Thai in order to improve reading skills of Chinese students. Therefore,       this book can be used as a learning media of Fundamental Business Thai for Chinese students, who study Thai as a foreign language in order to enhance reading comprehension skills of the students themselves.