RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ATTITUDES TOWARDS ONLINE LEARNING AND ENGLISH LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT AMONG STUDENTS AT PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY, SURAT THANI CAMPUS
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This research was to study at examining participants’ attitudes towards online learning among Thai EFL undergraduate students and investigating relationship between attitudes towards online learning and English learning achievement among the Thai EFL undergraduate students. By employing the convenient sampling method, 303 freshmen of Prince of Songkla University, Surat Thani Campus, were selected as participants in this study. The research instrument was a questionnaire consisting of two sections: participants’ background and attitudes towards online learning. The data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient to examine the relationship between the attitudes and English learning achievement. The findings revealed that the participants’ attitudes towards all aspects were averagely at a high level, namely, attitudes towards teachers ( = 3.94, SD = 0.84), learning assessment and evaluation (
= 3.75, SD = 0.81), teaching methods and learning activities (
= 3.72, SD = 0.79), The participants’ anxiety on online learning (
= 3.50, SD = 0.89), and online learning management (
= 3.49, SD = 0.91). Furthermore, the results between attitudes towards online learning and English learning achievement showed positive relationship with the level of statistical significance at .05 (r = .116, p = .044).
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