This research is aimed to study the circumstances of the program management of Applied Thai for foreigners in accordance with the views of the executives the lecturers and the students; the employers’ preferences to student performances; the problems relating to the program management as well as to recommend the development approach on the program management of Applied Thai. The target group includes the executives the lecturers of Applied Thai the third and the fourth class students in the academic year 2011. The tool is the questionnaire data analysis using SPSS. The statistics used include the frequency percentage mean and the standard deviation. The results of the study are as follows:- 1. As for the overall views of the students the students agree with the program management of Applied Thai in a high level (μ=3.59). The highest mean is the lecturers’ qualifications (μ=3.86). As for the overall views of the executives the executives agree with the program management of Applied Thai in a high level (μ=3.56). The highest mean is the evaluation (μ=3.84). As for the overall views of the lecturers the lecturers agree with the program management of Applied Thai in a high level (μ=3.80). The highest mean is the lecturers’ qualifications (μ=4.37). 2. As for the employers’ preferences to students’ performances the employers are generally satisfied with the students in a high level (μ=3.96). The highest mean is the students’ responsibilities for professional ethics (μ=4.13). 3. As for the problems relating to the program management the issues that are required to be developed include the improper curriculum: the curriculum content is irrelevant to curriculum objectives and several courses are useless. As for evaluation the test results should be noted after work in order to enable students to know their mistakes and the tests are too difficult. As for learning resources there are lacks of modern audio-visual materials books in the library and internet access. As for course administration the course syllabuses are not equivalent to students’ needs. As for faculty environment there are inadequate boarding rooms classrooms and other facilities. As for student activities Chinese students would like to participate in Thai students’ activities. 4. As for the approach on the program management of Applied Thai for foreigners the need and interest analysis of the students should be considered as the crucial basis by studying background information of the students course syllabus content and learning activities before developing the curriculum. Moreover the curriculum should be adapted to serve for the student purposes and labor market needs.

The purposes of this research were to study and to compare the addition of ethics to Thai teaching using Thai songs and Dhama lessons. The samples chosen by purposive sampling were the first year English for International Communication students of the faculty of Liberal Arts Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. They were divided into 2 groups and each group consisted of 30 students. The first group learned Thai with the addition of ethics using Thai songs while the second group learned Thai using Dhama lessons. The instruments were a pretest and a posttest. The results revealed that the test scores of the two groups of students after the addition of ethics to Thai teaching using Thai songs and Dhama lessons were higher. The means scores and standard deviations of the test results of the first group were23.13 and 3.18 and the second group were 22.23 and 3.49 respectively. In addition there was no significant difference (.05) in teaching Thai with the addition of ethics using Thai songs and Dhama lessons.

The purpose of the study was fourfold: 1) to construct a computer-assisted-instruction (CAI) of Basic Thai for Business Communication at 2) to determine the efficiency of the CAI at 80/80; 3) to compare the student learning achievement of the CAI based on the pretest and posttest scores ; and 4) to determine the students’ satisfaction towards the CAI. The subjects of the study were the 30 first-year undergraduate students majoring in Finance and Marketing the Faculty of Business Administration at Rajamangala University of Technology Pranakorn in 2008. The instrument and procedures comprised 4 parts. Part one contains the 8 units of CAI of Basic Thai for Business Communication each consisting of examples an end-of-unit exercise and a 5-item-end-of-unit test to measure lesson efficiency. Part two is the try-out CAI to determine its efficiency based on the results of the three respective groups which were initially 6 students majoring in Accountancy then 10 students majoring in Accountancy and finally 30 students majoring in Accountancy from the Faculty of Business Administration. The data were analyzed in percentage and mean. Part three comprises the tests consisting of the 30-item pretest and posttest containing the shuffled pretest items to compare the student achievement. The learning achievement was determined by t-test. Part four is the 10-rating scale items to survey the students’ satisfaction towards the CAI. The data were interpreted in mean score.The results indicated as follows: 1) the CAI of Basic Thai for Business Communication can be effectively complemented to teaching and learning; 2) the efficiency indication of the CAI of Basic Thai for Business Communication was higher than the set criteria 80/80 at 84.58/87.44; 3) the posttest scores were significantly higher than the pretest scores at 0.05; 4) The students were extremely satisfied with the CAI of Basic Thai for Business Communication in all aspects at Σ x 4.37.

Studies on Thai Language Teachers’roles towards the Conservation and Promotion of the Thai Culture in the Rajamangala Institute of Technology Central Campuses The purposes of this research were : 1) To study the general environment and roles of Thai language teachers towards conservation and promotion of Thai culture among the students and the community 2) To compare the roles of Thai language teachers being classified by their teaching experiences and education levels towards the conservation and promotion of Thai culture. 3) To study Thai teachers’ problems and obstacles in carrying out the said task. Samples of the research were 160 Thai language teachers. The instruments of the research were questionnaires. The data analysis was done on SPSS program. The result of the research showed that : 1) Most Thai language teachers had not been trained in the conservation and promotion of Thai culture. 2) There was no signifecant difference at level of 0.5 between the roles of the two groups of Thai language teachers in the conservation and promotion of Thai culture. 3) The Thai language teachers’ problems and obstacles in carrying out the conservation and promotion were lack of opportunities to acquire trainings or to participate in seminars on Thai culture lack of budgets document texts and audiovisual aids on Thai culture.

The objectives of the study titled “Dialect Preservation and Transference : Lao Khrung Dontoom District Nakhonpathom Province” were 1) to study about Lao Khrung language in Dontoom Nalon Pathom 2) to collect the local language information and to write manual “How to study Lao Khrurng?” for schools and other educational institutes in Dontoom Nakhon Pathom. In addition the project aimed 3) to conserve inherit and distribute Lao Khrung to remain in the society with qualitative research methodology. The scope of this research was at Ban Tung Phak Good Dontoom Nakhon Pathom (Lao Khrung Community area). The findings showed that the local language “Lao Khrung” was similar to the voice of Laotians in Luang Pra Bang which was the original homeland of Lao Khrung people in Dontoom. The written forms or alphabets could not be found in Lao Lhrung it had only the spoken language for communication. The sounds in Lao Khrung changed in many ways such as Sound Change Metathesis Sound Shifi Deletion Addition and Assimilation. Lao Khrung language was divided into 10 types including day time number animal flower tree vegetable and fruit characteristic body disease relatives occupation cloth decorations and miscellaneous. The study found that Lao Khrung had different consonant sounds tones words sentences and final particles from other Laotian people who immigrated into this area at the same time. Especially the final particles were much contrastive; they were used as a question a request and an affirmative sentence in the same sentence. Which type of these sentences were used depended on situation intimate status seniority respect social status intention mood and context in each conversation. Transmission inheritance and remaining of Lao Khrung resulted from learning from parents grandparents and elder people from daily routine being familiar with communication and practicing by imitation. The findings showed that conservation and inheritance of local language should be supported restored preserved to study and to collect the information of local language in order to stimulate local people to realize the importance of local language; the local course should also be made. Additionally the local scholars’ capabilities should be developed and supported to express out. Thus the inheritance restoration and transmission to the next generation help preserve and remain Lao Khrung in the Lao Khrung community onwards.