(Similarity + Document) Thai Students' Experiences of Online Learning at Indonesian Universities in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

he present interview study reports on eight Thai undergraduate
students’ experiences of online learning at three different Indonesian universities based
in East Java, Indonesia. Semi-structured interviewing was designed based on the
sociocultural framework proposed by Ma (2017) to elucidate the students’ voices of
online learning experience. The data garnered from online interviewing were
transcribed and interpreted using thematic content analysis. The study elicits three
important data themes: the agility of the student participants to adapt online learning to
suit their learning needs, the participants’ strategies to build learning autonomy, and
the participants’ ability to sustain their learning motivation. This study stresses the
important roles of such other agents as teachers, parents, and friends in providing
international students with mental and emotional support to help them get through
COVID-19 affected online learning.