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Chang, Te-Sheng; Haynes, Alexander MacDonald; Boonsathirakul, Jittinun; Kerdsomboon, Chakree – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
English as a medium of instruction and internationalisation projects have drawn increasing attention and participation among international higher education faculty, creating meso-level policies which directly affect the micro-level practices and respective learning experiences for undergraduates in these faculty's classrooms. This research…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Wei, Li-Wei – Online Submission, 2023
The perennial challenge of reading fluency, notably profound among Asian EFL learners, stems largely from linguistic disparities, conventional teaching paradigms, and ingrained cognitive practices. This study critically investigates the challenges Chinese undergraduates face with English reading fluency, notably due to linguistic disparities and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Comparative Analysis
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Taylor, Pimsiri; Tubpun, Tida; Burford, James – rEFLections, 2022
In Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, higher education internationalisation agendas have increasingly shifted from studying abroad to offering 'international' English-medium instruction (EMI) programmes at home. This qualitative study explores the perceptions of seventeen domestic undergraduate students in the disciplines of Law and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Law Students, Business Administration Education
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Wichadee, Saovapa – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2011
This study examined the effectiveness of explicit instruction of metacognitive strategies over a 14-week semester with a group of 40 EFL learners at a private university in Thailand. A metacognitive questionnaire and a reading test were administered at the beginning and at the end of the course to find the changes in both the questionnaire…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Private Colleges, Reading Tests, Learning Strategies
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Gamage, David T.; Suwanabroma, Jaratdao; Ueyama, Takeyuki; Hada, Sekio; Sekikawa, Etsuo – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to ascertain students' perceptions on quality of services provided by private universities in Thailand and Japan and how these affected decisions selecting a university. A comparative study aims to focus on how cultural and economic factors affected their decisions. Design/methodology/approach: Research design…
Descriptors: Research Design, Student Attitudes, Universities, Private Colleges
Praphamontripong, Prachayani – Program for Research on Private Higher Education, 2008
This paper examines different institutional characteristics of Thai private higher education in historical-organizational perspective. The analysis applies different conceptual categories of private emergence--Catholic, elite, demand-absorbing--drawn from international literature starting with Levy (1986) to the Thai case. The societal context of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Catholics, Private Sector, Institutional Characteristics