การศึกษาข้อผิดพลาดในงานเขียนภาษาเกาหลีแบบพรรณนาของนักศึกษามหาวิทยาลัยสงขลานครินทร์ และแนวทางการพัฒนา

Abstract

The study aimed to study errors in descriptive compositions written by Prince of Songkla University students taking the subject 893-471 Korean for Communication III at Faculty of liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai Campus in 2010 academic year. Two pieces of assignment were studied and analyzed for types and causes of errors made. Suggestions were made about how Korean teaching could be improved. The results were as follows. 1. Errors found in Korean Descriptive Compositions written by the subjects could be classified into 3 broad categories: grammar, vocabulary and orthography. Overall, the subjects made errors in grammar most frequently (42.73%), followed by errors in vocabulary (36.75%) and orthography (20.52%). 2. Errors made by low proficiency group were apparently different from those made by those in the high proficiency group; the low proficiency group made errors in vocabulary most frequently (40.95%), followed by those in grammar (35.2%) and orthography (23.85%) while the high ability group and the middle group made similar errors. The errors they made ranging from the most frequent to the least frequent were errors in grammar (40.6% and 52.4%), vocabulary (35.06% and 34.26%) and orthography (24.35%, 13.35%) respectively. 3. Causes of errors were of 4 types: the subjects’ personal problems (88.9%), the complexity and difficulty of the Korean language (44.4%), mother tongue influence (22.2%), and an external factor, the limitation of time available (11.1%). 4. In order to improve the students’ errors found in Korean descriptive compositions, the preferable teaching method is teachers should use integrated, eclectic method suitable for each lesson with different content and each individual’s differences.