An Analysis of Language Meta-functions in Clause Complexes from EFL Thai Upper Secondary School Students’ Personal Experience Recount Writing Products : SFL Perspective

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Clause Complexes Language Meta-functions Ideational Function Interpersonal Function Textual Function

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Pajonsak Mingsakoon
Ph.D. Candidate of English as an International Language Program, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science, Kasetsart University, Kampaeng Saen Campus, Nakorn Patom, Thailand/ an English teacher at the Department of Foreign Languages, Hunkhapittayakom Secondary School, Hunkha, Chainat, Thailand.
Udomkrit Srinon
Ph.D. (Supervisor) Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science, Kasetsart University, Kampaeng Saen Campus, Nakorn Patom, Thailand

Abstract

This paper aims at presenting the results of language meta-functions analysis in clause complexes from personal experience recount texts of the six selected EFL Thai upper secondary school participants, selected from the results of pretest writing analysis and the English subject grade point average report of the school’s academic staff. With respect to the case study method, 26 Mattayom Suksa 5 in the math and science program students in the 2nd year of high school education were from the purposive randomization from the 6 classes of Mattayom Suksa 5 at the school.  This selection made 2 high students (HS1, HS2), 2 middle students (MS1, MS2), and 2 low students (LS1 and LS2). The class was conducted through Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) genre-based approach at Hunkhapittayakom Secondary School, Hunkha District, Chainat Province, Thailand in the second semester of the academic year 2015 (Mingsakoon, 2018a; 2018b). The above-mentioned participants’ certain clause complexes in the personal experience writing work were analyzed through the framework of clause complex construction and the meaning making with the language meta-functions in SFL.  It revealed that the complex clauses the students constructed in the personal experience recount writing work were made communicably, and the structures of those clauses were complicated under the layers of interdependencies (paratactic and hypotactic relations) and logico-semantic relation serving to the sources of meaning making in the language meta-functions in personal experience recount genre described in the school’s curriculum.

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Vol. 26 No. 1 (2020): January-March
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บทความวิจัย (Research Articles)

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