The English Grammar Usage of Business English Students, Dhonburi Rajabhat University

Abstract

The purposes of the study were 1) to study Business English students’ English grammar usage; 2) to investigate which areas of English grammar students need to improve and 3) to investigate whether or not students can apply English grammar in different situations. The subjects were 164 Business English students, Dhonburi Rajabhat University, studying from the first year to the fourth year of study in the first semester of 2018. The data were collected by means of a test with 36 questions consisting of 8 topics: tense, part of speech, relative pronoun, quantity word, verb or adjective, adjective or adverb, infinitive or gerund verb and translation. The percentage was used to analyzed and interpret the data.  The result showed that 38 students (23.17%) out of 164 students pass the test. The number of students who passed each topic could be broken down as follows:   9 students (5.49%) for tense; 87 students (53.05%) for part of speech; 89 students (54.27%) for relative pronoun; 127 students (77.44%) for quantity; 28 students (17.07%) for verb or adjective; 91 students  (55.49%) for adjective or adverb;  103 students (62.80%) for infinitive/or gerund and 31 students (18.90%) for translation. The 3 most serious English grammar usage which more than 80% of students did not pass are tense, verb or adjective and translation.  These students need to put more efforts in studying English grammar especially the 3 problem topics. At the same time teachers need to find appropriate strategies for students to remember the grammar rules including being able to use English in the real situations