The Development of Thai Listening Comprehension of Chinese Students Using Feedback and Peer-Assisted Learning

This research seeks to develop an improved teaching method in the Thai-listening comprehension through feedback and peer-assisted learning. The researchers studied the developing result of Chinese students who had different roles and levels of self-regulation in the learning. Single subject research has been adopted in this research with 31 undergraduate Chinese students participating in the study. These students were 2nd year students majoring in the Thai language. They had all registered in the Listening course at -Level 2. The researchers measured the student's abilities and self-regulation to make precise conclusion in their listening comprehension over 9 practices. To data were analyzed using content analysis and repeated measurement with independent variables. The research result revealed that using feedback providing method for homework No. 1 -9 given to individual and using learning method as peer-assisted in doing homework for No. 4-5. After that, let each student did his/ her homework by himself/ herself or No. 6-7 and back to learning method using peer-assisted again on doing homework for No. 8-9. The developing result of listening comprehension shown that in general, the students have improved in listening comprehension skill. The "High and Medium" student group develops better listening comprehension skill than "Develop and Low" student group. The students with different self-regulation had the diversified scores for 9 homework not statistically significant.