Constructionism and error analysis to understand and improve written english composition of thai software engineering students

• Main Authors: Teeraporn Saeheaw, Komsak Meksamoot, Nopasit Chakpitak, Arnan Sipitakiat, Nitida Adipattaranan
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84899823032&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/45368
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

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 plural-s. The assessment of a pretest and posttest written exercise was statistically significant improvements. This paper sug gests 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. © 2014 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.