Thai Prosody Problems with First Year Students

Thai language is difficult in all four language skills,
especially reading. The first year students may have different abilities
in reading, so a teacher is required to find out a student’s reading
level so that the teacher can help and support them till they can
develop and resolve each problem themselves. This research is aimed
to study the prosody problem among Thai students and will be
focused on first year Thai students in the second semester. A total of
58 students were involved in this study. Four obstacles were found:
1. Interpretation from what they read and write
2. Incorrectness Pronunciation of Prosody
3. Incorrectness in Rhythm of the Poem
4. Incorrectness of the Thai Poem Pronunciation

• Jiraporn Adchariyaprasit

• Interpretation
• Pronunciation
• Prosody
• Reading.

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