LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 22:3 March 2022
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An Assessment of Thai Sophomore Students’
Paragraph Writing Learning Outcome
Using the FRELE-TH Framework Descriptors

Kunchalee Lekpetch

Abstract

Measuring students’ language ability can be viewed as subjective and complicated because competency in language is a multi-dimensional system. In order to assess students learning outcome, the Ministry of Education in Thailand is finding ways to help Thai students to develop their learning standard, thus the FRELE-TH was established and designed with the focus on the role of language for communicative purposes. As competence should be measured based on students actual learning outcomes, adapting and creating a language competency framework based on Thai context is necessary. FRELE-TH is a challenging work for different Thai scholars where its descriptors are used to encourage teachers and students to opt for communicative activities (‘can do’) based on the Thai context. As descriptors used in each level of FRELE-TH are flexible, this does not only provide the language scaffolding but also cognitive scaffolding that foster students’ English learning competency.

Keywords: Assessment, FRELE-TH descriptors, Learning outcome, Students’ paragraph writing, Thailand

Introduction

The globalization of English not only plays an important role in the world’s political, economic, and social life but is also as an academic discipline. It is recognized as the medium language for communication around the world and an important skill for both learners and users to achieve their goal, Thai students are facing problems with this regard.

This was reinforced by the report of Education First Standard English Test (2019), prepared by Swiss-based Education First, Thailand ranked 74th with the score of 47.62, which is regarded as very low proficiency. In 2018, Thailand was placed 64th out of 88 countries with a score of 48.54 which was, again, classified as very low proficiency (Hicks, 2019), and in 2017, was 53rd out of 80 countries, with a score of 49.7. The latest ranking has placed the country the third lowest among countries in Southeast Asia for English proficiency, behind Vietnam, which were ranked 52nd. A possible reason for this is that there is a mismatch between the English language curriculum and the teaching and assessing processes when it comes to practice.

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Kunchalee Lekpetch
Graduate School of Human Sciences
Assumption University, Thailand
kunchalee.lek@gmail.com
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