THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NOTICING STRATEGY INSTRUCTION ON DEVELOPING THAI EFL STUDENTS’ PARAGRAPH WRITING QUALITY

บทคัดย่อ

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the Noticing Strategy Instruction (NSI)

on developing the rhetorical pattern, organizational pattern, linguistic appropriateness, and text complexity

of Thai EFL students’ paragraph writing. The participants in this study were 32 third-year students majoring in

Communication Arts and Japanese at University of Phayao. After administering a pre-test, the students were

trained to analyze three types of model paragraphs (narrative, comparison and contrast, and opinion) through

the three stages of the NSI: pre-noticing stage, while-noticing stage, and post-noticing stage for 6 weeks. Then

the posttest was administered at the end of the experiment. The results of the study revealed that the NSI

positively affected the rhetorical pattern, organizational pattern, grammatical appropriateness, and text complexity

of Thai EFL students’ paragraph writing quality. The results also indicated that the students noticed the rhetorical

pattern, organizational pattern more often than the linguistic appropriateness. Then there was a tendency for the

students to rewrite the rhetorical pattern, organizational pattern, linguistic appropriateness, and text complexity

of their original first draft after they noticed and realized the gap or the difference between their original first

draft and the provided model paragraph.