Variations of Burmese Language Based on Age: A Case Study of Burmese Language Used by Myanmar Students in Bangkok University, Thailand

Abstract

This study is entitled “Variations of Burmese Language Based on Age: Case Study of Burmese Language Used by Myanmar Students in Bangkok University, Thailand”. The objectives of this research are 1) to study the variations of Burmese language based on age used by Myanmar students in Bangkok University, Thailand, and 2) to analyze the variations of Burmese language used by Myanmar students in Bangkok University, Thailand. The study is mixed with quantitative and qualitative methods. Questionnaires were used for collecting quantitative data from 226 respondents, and in-depth interviews were used for collecting qualitative data from Bangkok University in Thailand. In this research, statistics including Frequency, Percentage, Mean, and Standard Deviation (S.D.) were used for quantitative data, and content analysis was used for analyzing qualitative data.

The researcher found that the general background of respondents were that 100 people were males and 126 people were females. The respondents were mostly 18 to 20 years old about 100 respondents or 44.24%; 21 to 30 years old respondents 39.82%, and 31 up were one 36 respondents 15.92% in this research. According to the responses of the participants to the research questionnaires, the results were that most of the people had difficulties with variations of the Burmese language based on age: case study of Burmese language used by Myanmar students in Bangkok University. The result average was a high level equal to x̅ = 3.56 and SD .947 in objective one of this study. In the result of research objective two, the result average level was very high equal to x̅ =4.28 and SD .458 because most of the respondents agreed with the statements of objective two.