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Constructionism and error analysis to understand and improve written English composition of Thai software engineering students

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  • Teeraporn Saeheaw
  • Komsak Meksamoot
  • Nopasit Chakpitak
  • Arnan Sipitakiat
  • Nitida Adipattaranan

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To improve Thailand's higher education students' written English skills, this paper presents a learning innovation: the remedial framework targeting software engineering students, by integrating constructionism philosophy and leverages error analysis as a key mechanism to assess students' writing. Results show the most common errors are capitalisation, noun phrase, verb phrase, semantic word selection, determiner phrase, calque, and plurals. The assessment of a pretest and posttest written exercise was statistically significant improvements. This paper suggests that the new framework and assessment technique can improve Thais' written English by shifting from the grammar-based learning method to reach higher levels of learning.

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  • Teeraporn Saeheaw & Komsak Meksamoot & Nopasit Chakpitak & Arnan Sipitakiat & Nitida Adipattaranan, 2014. "Constructionism and error analysis to understand and improve written English composition of Thai software engineering students," International Journal of Innovation and Learning, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 15(3), pages 227-253.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijilea:v:15:y:2014:i:3:p:227-253
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