Investigations into Teaching and Learning Styles and Strategies, and Other Factors

Von Saowakhon Khunnawut

TUDpress 2010. Kartoniert, 21 x 14,8 cm, XVI, 250 S., zahlr. Abb. u. Tab.

The book presents a research on teaching and learning styles and strategies, and other factors related to teaching and learning English as a foreign language in the higher education in Thailand. The researcher administers questionnaires and diaries with a number of Thai university teachers and students of English at universities all over the country and reports on preferred teaching and learning styles and strategies of Thai university teachers and students.

The research findings also offer varied perspectives of problems and difficulties of learning and teaching English in the context of Thailand. Some practical suggestions and opinions to enhance the development of the teaching of English language on the curriculum of the Thai higher education are further elaborated by the students who have direct experience of learning English in the Thai university settings.

The book will provide a richer understanding of the English teaching and learning that take place at universities in Thailand. This will be useful for researchers, teachers, faculties in language education, curriculum developers, policy makers, and other professionals who deal with teaching and learning styles and strategies as well as a variety of factors and issues involved in teaching and learning English as a second/foreign language.