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Carlson, Gordon D. – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2015
Teaching a class of mixed EFL/ESL levels can be problematic for both instructors and students. The disparate levels of ability often mean that some students are not challenged enough while others struggle to keep pace. Drawing on experience in the university classroom in Japan, this practice promotes good preparation, self-reliance, inclusiveness,…
Descriptors: Student Participation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Cherngchawano, Wirun; Jaturapitakkul, Natjiree – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2014
University Admission Tests in Thailand are important documents which reflect Thailand's education system. To study at a higher education level, all students generally need to take the University Admission Tests designed by the National Institute of Educational Testing Service (NIETS). For the English test, vocabulary and reading comprehension is…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Word Lists
Teng, Feng – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2014
This study was inspired by Qian (1999) and Staehr (2009) and researched 88 Chinese learners who had already passed the College English Test 4 (CET). These learners volunteered to participate in the study regarding the depth and breadth of vocabulary knowledge and its relationship with listening comprehension, which was assessed by analyzing the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Listening Comprehension, Foreign Countries, College English
Chinda, Bordin – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2014
This research aims at examining the reactions of tertiary EFL teachers towards the use of performance-based language assessment. The study employed a mixed-method research methodology. For the quantitative method, 36 teachers responded to a questionnaire survey. In addition, four teachers participated in the in-depth interviews which were…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Rating Scales, Student Evaluation, English (Second Language)
Lekwilai, Panya – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2014
Fluency in reading is critical for becoming a successful reader and strongly correlates with reading comprehension. Fluency in reading refers to appropriate reading speed, accurate word recognition, appropriate phrasing, and appropriate expression when reading orally. Reader's Theater (RT) is a reading instructional method that requires readers to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Correlation
Sitthitikul, Pragasit – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2014
Learning to read is a complex task for beginners of English. They must coordinate many cognitive processes to read accurately and fluently, including recognizing words, constructing the meanings of sentences and text, and retaining the information read in memory. An essential part of the process for beginners involves learning the alphabetic…
Descriptors: Phonics, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Marina, Olga A.; Rajprasit, Krich – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2014
Communication mobility has been suggested as an element of the complex construct of professional communicative competence, with a shared core of English in the oral mode, for professional international communication. This study aims (1) to investigate the possible correlation between the perceived level of communication mobility, and the influence…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Usage
Ivanova, Olimpiada F. – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2014
In this "Idea Sharing" article, the author describes the techniques used when teaching oral summary making to second-year students studying Business English at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. The techniques are based on peer assessment, which…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Peer Evaluation
Jiriyasin, Tanisaya – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2014
This is a semester-long experimental study aimed at investigating the effects of a PBL (Problem-based Learning) approach on the English oral language performances of English major students in one of the private universities in Bangkok. For the purpose of the study, a systematic PBL model for English language classrooms was implemented.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods
Piamsai, Chatraporn – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2014
This study was an attempt to investigate how proficient and non-proficient learners used listening strategies to complete a listening task. 65 third-year Chulalongkorn University Commerce and Accountancy students participated in the first stage of the quantitative data collection. 18 students were randomly selected from the group for more in depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Protocol Analysis, Learning Strategies, Language Proficiency
Jaroenkitboworn, Kandaporn – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2014
This research investigates English acknowledgements in dissertations written by Thai PhD students, particularly the generic structure and linguistic patterns of gratitude expressions used in the acknowledgements. Following the line of the move analysis in acknowledgements of Hyland (2004), this article analyzed 70 acknowledgements accompanying PhD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Doctoral Dissertations, English
Sachathep, Sukchai – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2014
This variational pragmatics (VP) study investigates the similarities and differences of compliment responses (CR) between Thai and Punjabi speakers of English in Thailand, focusing on the strategies used in CR when the microsociolinguistic variables are integrated into the Discourse Completion Task (DCT). The participants were 20 Thai and 20…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages
Charumanee, Nisakorn – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2014
Nisakorn Charumanee believes that a reading teacher has an active role in cultivating reading culture or reading habit and in activating students to "want" to read. One way to do this is to integrate extensive reading into the classroom (Day and Bamford, 1998; Bamford and Day, 2004) where extensive reading can be enhanced if the teacher…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Reading Interests, Reading Instruction, Reading Improvement
Floris, Flora Debora – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2014
Today, English is truly regarded as an international language. It is the most widely-learned and spoken second or foreign language in many countries. In recent years, the number of second and foreign language speakers has far exceeded the number of first language speakers of English. This dramatic change, many have argued, should be taken into…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, English Instruction, English (Second Language), English Curriculum
Wongsothorn, Achara – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 1983
A study on language transfer phenomenon from Thai to English is reported. The purposes of the study were to: (1) analyze the transfers from Thai to English caused by linguistic (syntax, lexis, meaning), organizational (sequence of development), style (genre, tone), and field (topic, function) factors; (2) compare the language transfers in…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communication Research, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis