Publication: Improving Thai Tourism Students’ English Language Abilities Using A Hybrid Problem-Based Learning Approach Module
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2025-03
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Yusoff, Anumat
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The importance of english language ability in hospitality field is crucial in order to promote the tourism industry in thailand. For this reason, thai students in the tourism program are required to have a mastery of using english language skills to fulfill the requirements of the tourism industry, which demands good language abilities. However, thai students in the tourism program are struggling to use language skills in relation to real-life situations, and they fail to perform well in their english exams. For this reason, the hybrid problem-based learning approach (hpbla) module was used as an intervention in this study. The hpbla module is a combination of the problem-based learning approach and language learning strategies. The study used a pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental research design employed with a single group. The study deployed two instruments namely, pre- and post-tests and questionnaires on english language learning strategies. The participants were 39 thai students in the tourism program. The study used a single group as the experimental group, and the intervention was conducted for eight weeks (four hours per week lessons) and the paired-samples t-test was used to compare the mean scores of the pretest and post-test. Multiple linear regression was used to test the relationships between the variables.
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Tourism students—Thailand