Abstract
The purpose of this study was to analyze the frequency of parts of speech from online Student Weekly Magazine. The setting and material of the study were 30 education news articles in seven levels from the website http://www.studentweekly.com from the 1st of October 2015 to the 30th of November 2015. The study focused on parts of speech; noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, determiner and conjunction. The data collection and analysis used frequency and percentage. The research findings showed that there were 7,800 words to analyze for parts of speech from the 30 news articles. It found that of the 7,800 words there were 3,112 nouns 3,112 equaling (40%), 1,347 verbs equaling (17%), 1,028 prepositions equaling (13%), 829 determiners equaling (11%), 708 adjectives equaling (9%), 338 pronouns equaling (4%), 232 adverbs equaling (3%), and 206 conjunctions equaling (3%). In conclusion, education news in an online Student Weekly Magazine used more nouns than other part of speech with 40%, and the lowest percentage was conjunctions for only 3%.
Highlights
English is a universal language since many countries use it as an official, second or foreign language
The results showed that the frequencies and percentages of eight parts of speech in an online news source titled, “Student Weekly Magazine” from the total word count of 7,800 words
The purpose of this research was to study parts of speech used in 30 education news articles from an online Student Weekly Magazine Website
Summary
English is a universal language since many countries use it as an official, second or foreign language. English in Thailand is considered a foreign language which students have to learn at school. English subject in Thai school curriculum requires students at all levels to study English as a foreign language beginning from the elementary level to the tertiary level. Even though Thai students study English for many years, many are not successful in being able to use English proficiently. In teaching English, there are four skills of the language: listening, speaking, reading and writing that must be taught. In addition to those four skills that language learners to succeed in learning, they must have background knowledge of vocabularies
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