Thai Business Students’ Writing Strategies with Emphasizing on Writing Proficiency and Field of Study
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In the field of second language writing, writing strategy investigation has been paid attention by many researchers for more than three past decades. The aim of this study was to investigate the frequent use of writing strategies by Thai business students at tertiary level according to the difference on writing proficiency and field of study. The participants of the study were 87 third and fourth year students including 26 marketing students, 29 management students and 32 accounting students. The research instruments were collected by English writing composition test for measuring students’ writing proficiency and the writing strategies inventory questionnaires, which adopted from Petric & Czarl (2003). The statistics of means, standard deviation and one–way ANOVA were computed for data analysis. The major findings of this study indicated that while-writing strategies were the most frequently used, followed by pre-writing strategies and revising strategies respectively. On the whole picture of significant variation in the frequency of students’ use of writing strategies, no significant differences were found in either writing strategy categories between the high writing proficiency and low writing proficiency students, among the groups of students across three majors in business field. In conclusion, writing proficiency and field of study are not played vital role in affecting the frequency of writing strategies employed by Thai business students who have skilled at logical and mathematical intelligence.
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