Effect Of Discord as an Online Learning Application on Standardized Test-taking Strategies of Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi Students
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The objectives of this study were to: 1) examine standardized test-taking strategies of fourth year students majoring in English for communication at Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi using Discord as an Alternative Online Learning Application, and 2) explore attitudes towards learning English of fourth year students majoring in English for communication at Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi using Discord as an Alternative Online Learning Application. The samples were 30 students of 167 fourth year students majoring in English for communication, who were selected by simple random sampling. The research instruments were a pretest and posttest of standardized test-taking strategies, TOEIC part 5 test-taking strategies in Discord application, and a questionnaire. The statistics used to analyze data were mean, standard deviation, and t-test for dependent samples. The research results revealed that: 1) standardized test-taking strategies of fourth-year students majoring in English for communication at the Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi using Discord as an Alternative Online Learning Application after the experiment was higher than before the experiment with statistical significance at the .01 level, and 2) attitudes towards learning English of fourth-year students majoring in English for communication at the Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi using Discord as an Alternative Online Learning Application was at a high level.
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