LIST OF 1,000 WORDS FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING FUNDAMENTAL THAI FOR CHINESE STUDENTS USING THAI AS A SECOND LANGUAGE OF DHURAKIJ PUNDIT UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to compilea list of 1000 Thai words and utterances used for learning and teaching fundamental Thai for Chinese students of Dhurakij Pundit University who study Thai as a second language. The results of this research could be used to improve the Thai language teaching for Chinese students, and used as the information to improve teaching materials such as dictionary, glossary, and competency tests.

Thai words will be selected according to their cumulative frequency which has been divided into 5 groups. 9 words have been classified as the most frequently group, 33 words in the second group, 35 words in the third group, 112 words in the fourth group, and 844 words found in the least frequently group.

As for the part of speech analysis, nouns constitute the most frequency found in the word list. 48.3percent of the 1000words used as noun, 33.69 percent used as verb, and only 0.29 percent or the minority of the part of speech found in the word list is relative pronoun. In addition, the results of word found based on context of language use reveal that 34.95 percent of words were used as the language for communication in classroom, 34.27 percent only found on textbook, and 30.78 percent found in these both contexts.