SURVEY OF THE INTEREST LEVELS OF KHMER STUDENTS AT TRA VINH UNIVERSITY ON CRITICAL THINKING SKILL (The case of School of Southern Khmer Language, Culture and Arts)

Abstract

The study was conducted to explore the interest levels and the understanding of Khmer students at Tra Vinh University (The case of School of Southern Khmer Language, Culture and Arts). The survey results on 114   first-year to fourth-year students of the majors: Cultural Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities, Khmer language, Pedagogy of Southern Literature show that 70% of students are interested in critical thinking. Students realize that this is the necessary thinking for the learners themselves when there are 32.46% totally agree and 54.39% agree to develop critical thinking skills. Based on the results, we initially try to find out the causes and propose the  solutions to develop critical thinking skills for students.