Abstract:
The purposes of this mixed-method study were to 1) investigate the level of WTC among undergraduate students in Thailand, and 2) investigate the relationship of English language online classroom environment and WTC among undergraduate students in Thailand. Following the sequential explanatory design, the study was divided into 2 phases 1) the quantitative phase which participants are 406 undergraduate students from universities in Bangkok area. The survey questionnaire which consisted of WTC section and English language online classroom environment section is deployed. 2) the qualitative phase, which the participants consisted of seven undergraduate students who were purposively selected from the WTC mean score. The semi-structured interview was conducted with the participant. The quantitative data were analyzed for descriptive statistics (frequencies and mean scores), and inferential statistics (correlation) using statistic software. The qualitative data were analyzed using the content analysis method.
The study revealed the following results: (1) Thai undergraduate students are willing to communicate in English at a moderately high level (3.11/4.00), (2) Statistically significant relationship (p
