Abstract:
Abstract
The purposes of the study were 1) to investigate the effectiveness of the literature instructional model (LIM) in promoting Thai students’ intercultural awareness with the set criteria of 80/80 and 2) to examine the opinions of Thai students towards the implementing of the LIM model. A quasi-experimental study was used in this research. Population for this research was 56 third-year English major students in the Faculty of Education, Buriram Rajabhat University, registering in the Short Story course in the first semester of the Academic Year 2018.
The findings of the study revealed that 1) the effectiveness of the literature instructional model to enhance EFL students’ intercultural awareness through learning ASEAN short story at 80.93./81.13, which was higher than the expected criteria 80/80. 2) The third-year English major students reported positive opinion towards the literature instructional model at agree level (X = 4.20 and S.D. 0.51).
Keywords: The Literature Instructional Model, Intercultural Awareness, English Major Student