The Effects of Supplementing English Reading Actvities on the English Writing Ability of Third Year Nursing Students
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Thai EFL (English as a foreign language) learners, have notoriously known as being inferior to most of their ASEAN counterparts considering the English language proficiency. Based on the researcher’s observation, nursing students at a private university in the central Thailand could be included in the marginal proficiency group. Adhered to a reading-writing connection framework, the study aimed to find out whether supplementing the writing course with reading activities would improve the learners’ writing ability and lexical repertoire. Sixty 3rd year nursing students were purposely selected from the population of 138 nursing students enrolling in the English Writing course taught by the researchers. They were assigned to the experiment and control groups, 30 for each. The experiment subjects were assigned to read seven reading passages with following-up activities along with the writing course. A pre-and post-test was administered to both groups. It was found that statistically, at ∝ 0.05, the experiment group performed significantly better in lexicon and sentence complexity, 0.030*, and 0.018*, respectively. To certain extent the present study added a piece of evidence to the reading and writing connection theory.
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ในกรณีที่กองบรรณาธิการ หรือผู้เชี่ยวชาญ ซึ่งได้รับเชิญให้เป็นผู้ตรวจบทความวิจัย หรือ บทความทางวิชาการมีความเห็นว่าควรแก้ไขความบกพร่อง ทางกองบรรณาธิการจะส่งต้นฉบับให้ ผู้เขียนพิจารณาจัดการแก้ไขให้เหมาะสมก่อนที่จะลงพิมพ์ ทั้งนี้ กองบรรณาธิการจะยึดถือความคิด เห็นของผู้เชี่ยวชาญเป็นเกณฑ์
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