Acknowledgement
The authors would like to acknowledge the students, families, and teachers for their cooperation. Our great appreciation is also extended to Associate Professor Wathna Soonthorndhai and Lecturer John Daly (USA) for their time, supervision, useful discussion, critical reading, and editing of the manuscript.
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