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English Vocabulary Acquisition of Bilingual Learners at the Primary and Secondary Levels |
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| Creator | 1. Ruja Pholsward 2. Donrutai Boonprasitt |
| Title | English Vocabulary Acquisition of Bilingual Learners at the Primary and Secondary Levels |
| Publisher | สถาบันภาษา จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย |
| Publication Year | 2558 |
| Journal Title | PASAA : a journal of language teaching and learning |
| Journal Vol. | 49 |
| Page no. | 1_38 |
| Keyword | vocabulary acquisition,lexis,English communication skill levels,bilingual learnersmotivation,self-determination theory |
| ISSN | 2287-0024 |
| Abstract | This paper reports research findings of Englishvocabulary acquisition of bilingual learners at the levelsof Primary 6 and Secondary 3 at Satit Bilingual Schoolof Rangsit University. The purpose was to find out theextent to which learners at these levels have acquiredEnglish vocabulary to communicate their ideas aboutthemselves and their school life. The subjects were 34Primary 6 students and 18 Secondary 3 students. Allsubjects were individually interviewed by two bilingualresearchers of Thai and English: one Thai and oneAmerican. A set of ten questions was used in a 15-minute interview in English to secure lexical data orwords from each subject. Vocabulary acquisition wasassessed via communication skills at five levels: 1) Fullcontrol, 2) Functional control, 3) Moderate control, 4)Sufficient control, and 5) Marginal control. All interviewswere recorded with consent of the subjects. During eachinterview, two more bilingual researchers of Thai andEnglish were present to collect spontaneous speech dataon words used by each subject. The obtained data were analyzed in frequency and percentage. The majorresearch findings indicate that those subjects at thelevel of Primary 6 performed at five levels with amajority at level 2. The subjects in secondary 3performed at three levels (1-3) with a majority at levels1 and 2; there was none at level 4 or 5. The subjects atthe level of Primary 6 and Secondary 3 show similarlexical features at specific levels with some variation ineach, depending on the meanings individual subjectswould like to convey in responding to the interviewers.It was noted that the subjects with three years'exposure to language immersion performed dominantlyat level 2 and those with less exposure in years performedat levels 3 and 4. |
