The effects of total physical response supplemented with teaching props on Thai kindergarten 3 students Chinese vocabulary knowledge and learning behaviors

Name: Tao Jiang

LCSH: Vocabulary -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Audio-visual aids

LCSH: Learning -- Case studies

ThaSH: Chinese language -- Vocabulary

Abstract: This research investigates the effects of Total Physical Response (TPR) supplemented with teaching props on Thai Kindergarten 3 students’ Chinese vocabulary knowledge and learning behaviors at a public school in Nonthaburi Province, Thailand. TPR, students’ physical responses to the teacher’s verbal commands, and teaching props (i.e. wigs, toys, monster fish headgears, funny masks, and glasses) were used as treatments. One-group experimental design was adopted to test two hypotheses. This experiment was conducted face-to-face in a classroom setting that consisted of 5 male students and 9 female students for four weeks from January to February 2022 with video recordings for inter-rater reliability. One-Way ANOVA and SPSS version 21 used to analyze the data obtained from Chinese vocabulary knowledge tests confirmed the first hypothesis that the treatment could positively affect the students’ knowledge with a statistically significant difference at .041 (P<0.05). A frequency distribution counting the frequency of their active learning behavior based on the video recordings also confirmed the second hypothesis that most of them highly participated in the learning process as they had smiley faces, clapped their hands, screamed excitedly, laughed, jumped, held their hands up, and ran to the researcher. Their highly active participation aligned with the Chinese vocabulary they acquired from the tests. The research recommended that non-native and native Chinese teachers in a similar context extend the experiment to Kindergarten 1 or 2 students for a longer time or cover an entire term if there is no time constraint.

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Email: library@rsu.ac.th

Name: Noparat Tananurasakul

Role: Advisor

Created: 2022

Modified: 2567-02-20

Issued: 2024-02-20

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DegreeName: Master of Education

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: Bilingual Education

Grantor: Rangsit University

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