Factors affecting English learning skills of the third year King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi Science students in 2012 academic year

摘要

The purpose of this research is to study some factors which affecting the English learning skills of the third year King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) Science students in 2012 academic year. The raw data that used to analyze in this research are English test scores and these answer from the questionnaires. The sample group in this research consists of 179 third year KMUTT science students, whose questionnaires are completely answered and English scores are variable. Two statistical methods used to analyze those data are Factor Analysis and Pearson Correlation analysis. The result from factor analysis showed that are all 26 variables were grouped into 5 main groups. These include the factor about the personal skills, the factor about benefits of English, the factor about English for every use, the factor about English for self-development, and the factor about the positive attitude in English. In addition, the result from correlation analysis also provides that there are only 3 factors from 5 factors that significantly correlated to the English test scores. These three factors are the factor about benefits of English, the factor about English for self development, and the factor about the positive attitude in English.