CORRECTING STUDENTS ERRORS IN WRITING THAI LANGUAGE, FACULTY OF EDUCATION, MAHAMAKUT BUDDHIST UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The objectives of this article were: 1) study Thai language-majoring students’ errors in Thai language writing, faculty of education, Mahamakut Buddhist University 2) study the students’ causes of Thai language writing errors 3) propose the error corrections in Thai language writing. The results of this study were as follows; The students’ errors in writing Thai Language consisted of four main issues; error of spelling words, word use, sentence writing, and paragraph writing. Due to the analysis, the writing errors mostly discovered were the word use – 110 words, representing 35.48 percent, orthography – 100 words, representing 32.25 percent, the use of sentence – 60 sentences, representing 19.35 percent, and writing style – 45 writing styles, representing 14.51 percent respectively. In addition, five reasons of language use errors were found; the lack of omniscience, the lack of accuracy, the lack of countercheck, the lack of practice, and the lack of positive attitude.

However, there were seven solutions of the language use errors; the knowledge enhancement, the confidence enhancement, the practice of writing skills, the countercheck of written work, the cultivation of reading behaviors, the cultivation of writing behaviors, and the cultivation of positive attitude