Thai Undergraduate Students’ Perception and Production on English Prepositions
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This study aimed to investigate Thai undergraduate students’ perception and production on English prepositions: independent and dependent. The participants consisted of 50 English minor students at a university in Thailand. Research instruments used were a perception test (grammatical judgment) and a production test (writing) adopted from Ruangjaroon (2015). Each item from both tests were parallel. Paired samples t-test was conducted to compare mean score of students’ perception and production on independent and dependent prepositions. Results showed that the students gained higher score on English prepositions on the perception test than they did on the production tests. They also perceived and produced dependent prepositions better than independent prepositions. However, their scores were not very high, which illustrates that they had difficulty in judging and using English prepositions, both independent and independent, correctly.
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ในกรณีที่กองบรรณาธิการ หรือผู้เชี่ยวชาญ ซึ่งได้รับเชิญให้เป็นผู้ตรวจบทความวิจัย หรือ บทความทางวิชาการมีความเห็นว่าควรแก้ไขความบกพร่อง ทางกองบรรณาธิการจะส่งต้นฉบับให้ ผู้เขียนพิจารณาจัดการแก้ไขให้เหมาะสมก่อนที่จะลงพิมพ์ ทั้งนี้ กองบรรณาธิการจะยึดถือความคิด เห็นของผู้เชี่ยวชาญเป็นเกณฑ์
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