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Effective English Speaking and Writing Strategies of Chinese Working Staff |
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| Creator | Shasha Zhang |
| Title | Effective English Speaking and Writing Strategies of Chinese Working Staff |
| Contributor | Surachai Piyanukool, Saowarod Ruangpaisan |
| Publisher | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Buriram Rajabhat University |
| Publication Year | 2566 |
| Journal Title | Journal of English Language and Linguistics (JEL) |
| Journal Vol. | 4 |
| Journal No. | 2 |
| Page no. | 117-136 |
| Keyword | Chinese working staff, effective English speaking strategies, effective writing strategies |
| URL Website | https://so17.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JEL/index |
| Website title | https://so17.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JEL/article/view/135 |
| ISSN | ISSN 2821-952X (Online) |
| Abstract | The purposes of this study were to 1) explore the effective English speaking and writing strategies of Chinese working staff and 2) compare those strategies of participants with different genders and ages. The participants were 96 working staff at Dongming Administrative Service Management Center, Dongming country, Shandong province, China. The four staff, two males and two females, were interviewed. The researchers employed questionnaires and a semi-structure interview to collect the data from those officers. The findings revealed that the 15 speaking and 15 writing strategies were their moderate effective strategies. Their top three speaking strategies were 1) watching English movies/videos, 2) telling the interlocutor to speak slowly, and 3) practicing questioning and answering; while their top three writing strategies were 1) learning writing correct grammar from teachers, 2) writing after models, and 3) spelling correctly. When comparing those strategies by gender and age using t-test to compare means, the participants with different genders and ages rated those strategies moderate effective, which was not different. The highest effective strategy of males was telling the interlocutor to speak slowly and the highest effective writing strategy was writing correct grammar learned from teachers. The females’ highest effective speaking strategy was watching English movies/videos and the highest effective writing strategy was the same as males’ strategy. The staff aged 25-40 rated playing English games the highest speaking strategy. The staff aged 41-60 rated telling the interlocutor to speak slowly the highest effective speaking strategy. |
