Research For Ramkhamhaeng University Of Learning Thai Students Learning Chinese, And Motivation Survey

In recent years, with the further acceleration of globalization, "Chinese language fever" is further warming up. Thailand's Chinese language education continues to expand under the guidance of the government and the community.The sound development of Sino-Thai relations and the continuous exchange makes Thai people more motivated in learning Chinese and strengthening their understanding of the Chinese Confucian culture. Ramkhamhaeng University in Thailand is an open university of higher education. It is the only major higher educational institution in Thailand qualified and recognized for the training of Chinese language professionals. Through questionnaires and interviews the author of Ramkhamhaeng University for student characteristics, investigated their basic learning situation and motivation for learning Chinese as a foreign language.It also investigated the related factors and analyzed the impact of external factors on students learning Chinese.The main purpose of this study is to further explore the motivating factors of students learning Chinese in relaion to students' age, cultural and family background of such learners and the relationship between personal aspirations and the main Chinese language learning problems. The survey includes Ramkhamhaeng University College Chinese language students, and the professional Chinese language teachers.The survey takes in to consideration 121 students of Chinese major of Ramkhamhaeng University as a university having an open university characteristics. The questionnaire is divided into two parts:the first part is to investigate the information on individual students, the second part is to help the researcher in understanding motivating factors of students learning Chinese. Statistical tools used is the MA Dong-mei's "foreign language learning motivation to study new developments and their significance for teaching," a paper presented to survey factors and the actual situation and the need for a change, to filter out valid statistical data to analyze the impact of student motivation factors, and to bring clarifications to some of the investigations which are not clear enough. Interviewees include:undergraduate and graduates students, and professionals engaged in Chinese language teaching. The research revealed that Ramkhamhaeng University students motivating factors to learn Chinese in descending order were:"like the Chinese", "the work of current or future benefit","interested in Chinese culture", "to do with China or Chinese related work ", " Chinese fever " and " other ". According to the result of the questionnaire, what inspire students'Chinese language learning motivation factors were generally divided into internal motivation and external motivation. Two aspects of interaction can be seen from the survey results to promote the main motivation for Chinese learning students is internal motivation. Through detailed analysis of survey data different factors affect the motivation for the learners and the role of the size of the Thai students also promote Chinese language learning. Motivation factors include:the age, grade, gender, ethnic Chinese and non-Chinese in the future career plans and arrangements for teaching in schools and so on. Allowing the Chinese teaching in Thailand and students to provide reference management recommendations to promote Chinese teaching in Thailand better development. In addition, the researcher found that both internal and external motivation for this situation depends not only on the students themselves, but also on the schools to organize teaching materials and curriculum, classroom teaching activities of teachers and teaching methods for students with other factors have an important impact on motivation, Therefore it can be concluded that both teachers and students need cooperation, for Chinese language teaching and learning to achieve good results.