1. Full name of the researcher:Nguyen Thi Thuy2. Gender: Female
3. Date of birth: February 10, 1980 4. Place of birth: Hai Duong
5. Decision on recognition of PhD students No. 4618/2016/QD-XHNV-SDH dated December 29, 2016 of the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU Hanoi.
6. Changes in the training process:
- Decision 579/QD-XHNV dated March 9, 2018 on adjusting doctoral thesis topics of graduate students.
- Decision 314/QD-XHNV dated January 17, 2019 on changing doctoral thesis supervisor.
- Decision 352/QD-XHNV dated January 23, 2019 on adjusting the doctoral thesis topic of graduate students.
7. Thesis topic name:Communication skills in learning activities of Khmer students at some universities in the Mekong Delta region
8. Major: Psychology 9. Code: 62 31 04 01
10. Scientific advisor: Associate Professor, Dr. Le Thi Minh Loan
11. Summary of new results of the thesis:
- The thesis points out the characteristics of communication skills in classroom learning activities of Khmer students: high concentration of senses to listen and take notes on learning content, but limited ability to express learning content verbally when interacting with teachers and friends in groups and in class.
- By applying cluster analysis, discriminant analysis and regression analysis, the study shows 3 groups of Khmer students with communication skills in learning activities at 3 levels: high, medium and low with their own characteristics in both expression and influencing factors. The group of Khmer students with low communication skills is characterized by focusing on the senses to listen and take notes on learning content, the group is strongly influenced by the encouraging communication behavior of the lecturer. Meanwhile, the group of students with average communication skills is characterized by good verbal communication in expressing learning content, but the ability to concentrate on listening is not high, these students are strongly influenced by learning conditions. The group of students with high communication skills is characterized by good performance in all component communication skills, the group is strongly influenced by the factor of learning motivation.
- This study provides further evidence to identify factors affecting communication skills in classroom learning activities of Khmer students. It was found that learning motivation was identified as the factor with the strongest impact on the Khmer students group, whereas the personality traits of Khmer students did not have an impact on communication skills in classroom learning activities of Khmer students.
- In addition, the study also shows the influence of communication skills in classroom learning activities on the learning outcomes of Khmer students in a positive direction.
- Finally, from the results of theoretical and practical research, the thesis has proposed 3 measures to improve communication skills in classroom learning activities for Khmer students, specifically: stimulating learning motivation for Khmer students; enhancing encouraging communication behavior of lecturers; and organizing training courses on communication skills in learning activities for Khmer students.
12. Practical application:
The results of the thesis provide a valuable source of reference data for researchers, experts in the fields of ethnic psychology, educational psychology, social psychology and higher education institutions in the Mekong Delta region.
13. Further research directions:
- Developing communication skills in learning activities for Khmer students in university environment
- Communication between Khmer students and their peers from other ethnic groups in a university environment in the Mekong Delta.
14. Published works related to the thesis:
INFORMATION OF DOCTORAL THESIS
1. Full name:Nguyen Thi Thuy2. Sex: Female
3. Date of birth: February 10, 1980 4. Place of birth: Hai Duong
5. Admission decision number: 4618/2016/QD-XHNV-SDH dated December 29, 2016 by the rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU.
6. Changes in academic process:
- The decision of 579/QD-XHNV dated March 9, 2018 about adjusting of the title of the doctoral thesis.
- The decision of 314 /QD-XHNV dated January 17, 2019 about replacing academic supervisor.
- The decision of 352/QD-XHNV dated January 23, 2019 about adjustment of the title of the doctoral thesis.
7. Official thesis title:Communication skills in Khmer students' learning activities at some universities in the Mekong Delta
8. Major: Psychology 9. Code: 62 31 04 01
10. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Le Thi Minh Loan
11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:
- The thesis shows that communication skills in classroom learning activities of Khmer students had high concentration of senses on listening and taking notes, but restricted in expressing academic contents verbally when interacting with lecturers and classmates on the classroom
- By applying the cluster analysis, discriminant analysis, and regression analysis, the study demonstrated that Khmer students included 3 sub-groups with low, medium, and high academic communication skills. Each group had unique characteristics in academic communication skills and affecting factors. The Khmer group with low communication skills was characterized by a high concentration of senses on listening and taking notes on the learning content. This group was strongly influenced by the teacher's confirmation. Meanwhile, the Khmer group with average communication skills was characterized by good verbal communication in expressing learning content, but their ability to concentrate on listening was not high. These students were strongly influenced by the learning condition. The group of Khmer students with high communication skills had good characteristics of all communication skills. This group was strongly influenced by the learning motivation.
- This study provides further evidence to clarify the factors that affect Khmer students' communication skills in classroom learning activities. Discovering that learning motivation had the strongest impact on Khmer students' academic communication skills; Meanwhile, Khmer's personality traits did not affect their academic communication skills.
- Besides, the study also demonstrated that the communication skills of Khmer students shown classroom learning activities contributed positively to the change of their learning outcomes.
- Finally, thanks to theoretical and practical research results, the present study suggests 3 methods to improve communication skills for Khmer students in relation to classroom learning activities, ie, stimulating learning motivation for Khmer students; promoting communication behaviors encouraged by tutors; and organizing training courses related to communication skills in learning activities for Khmer students.
12. Practical applicability
The findings of this study could be precious reference materials for researchers, experts in the field of educational psychology, ethnic psychology, and social psychology and higher education institutions in the Mekong River Delta.
13. Further research directions
- Developing communication skills in learning activities for Khmer students
- Khmer students' communication with other ethnic groups in university environment in the Mekong River Delta
14. Thesis – related publications:
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