Publication: Thai University Undergraduates' Errors in English Writing
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ภาษาและภาษาศาสตร์
Language and Linguistics
Language and Linguistics
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Thai University Undergraduates' Errors in English Writing
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This research is an investigation of syntactic and morphological errors, including errors of word usage, in paragraphs written by 100 Thai university undergraduate students of English as a second language. Its purposes are to analyze the errors in the data and to present statistics to indicate the frequencies of errors and also to draw conclusions about the causes of these errors.
Contrastive analysis is the principal method used to account for the errors. On the basis of the contrastive analysis performed, explanations in terms of interlingual interference were used to account for the various errors found in the students' paragraph writing. The analysis is helpful in understanding the difficulties that Thai university undergraduate students encounter in writing English paragraphs and in helping them to reduce errors in their paragraph writing. Based on the implications and results of the contrastive study, the data put forth might eventually serve as a base for further studies on the pedagogical prevention and correction of errors in the teaching of English.
To ensure efficient teaching of English for Thai undergraduate learners, the present research recommends that the focus of teaching be on selected syntactic and morphological problems, including problems of word usage, instead of a general presentation of English.