อิทธิพลของความถี่ของประเภทคำและผลกระทบของภาษาแม่ที่มีต่อการใช้โครงสร้างภาษาอังกฤษที่ไม่เป็นไปตามแบบแผนในงานเขียนของนักวิชาการไทย/The Influence of Word-Type Frequency and Mother Tongue Effects on Non-Conventional English-Structure Usage in Thai Academics’ Writing
Keywords:
Academic writing, error analysis, language structure, word type, word frequencyAbstract
The study reported analyzed 26 manuscripts written by Thai academics for publication in English language journals, based on suggestions for changes made by a native-English speaking editor prior to submission, with the aim of establishing which areas of English structure cause most problems to Thai writers at this level. The overall study employed a mixed-methods approach although the findings reported in this paper are derived from the quantitative analysis of the non-conventional usage (NCU) of English in the manuscripts. The study followed the broad conceptual approach of error analysis and this paper reviews previous studies of English writing by Thais based on this approach, mostly involving high school or undergraduate students. The paper compares the findings of those papers with those of the study reported, finding that four of the main problem areas identified in those studies (article, verb, preposition and noun usage) were also the structural aspects most frequently identified in the 26 manuscripts analyzed, accounting for more than 80% of the structure NCU. However, the study also analyzed the number of tokens of each word type in the manuscripts and identified a high correlation of 0 .86 between the errors in those word types and the frequency of occurrence of the word types in the manuscripts. Previous studies have not identified such a relationship thus potentially misrepresenting the level of difficulty presented by different word-type usage. Nevertheless the areas giving rise to most problems are also noted to coincide with areas where Thai language structure differs from English. The paper concludes that although the distribution of word types in the manuscripts is a significant influence on the pattern of NCU, the major factor behind the types of errors to which the participants are prone is the influence of their Thai L1. The paper concludes that a relatively small number of areas need to be targeted in the early teaching of English, notably the use of the definite article, the past and present simple tenses, singular and plural nouns and preposition use generally, in order that problems in these areas should not later become entrenched in higher level usage.
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Suvarnamani, S. (2017) A study of grammatical and lexical errors in descriptive writing of first year arts students at Silpakorn University. Silpakorn University Journal of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Vol.17(2): 239-264.
Swan, M. (1996). Practical English usage. Oxford Univ. Press.
Vasconselos, M.R., Sorenson, M.M., & Leta, S. (2009). A new input indicator for the assessment of science and technology research. Scientometrics. Vol. 80, 217–230.
Watcharapunyawong, S., & Usaha, S. (2012). Thai EFL students’ writing errors in different text types: The interference of the first language. English Language Teaching, 6(1), 67
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Currie, M. G., Sinwongsuwat, K., & Nicoletti, K. (2019). อิทธิพลของความถี่ของประเภทคำและผลกระทบของภาษาแม่ที่มีต่อการใช้โครงสร้างภาษาอังกฤษที่ไม่เป็นไปตามแบบแผนในงานเขียนของนักวิชาการไทย/The Influence of Word-Type Frequency and Mother Tongue Effects on Non-Conventional English-Structure Usage in Thai Academics’ Writing. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSOKKU), 36(1), 128–168. Retrieved from https://so01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/HUSO/article/view/152229
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