Abstract

The purpose of this study was to survey vocabulary used in online Thai food recipes from two websites www.BBCGoodFood.com and www.ThaiTable.com. The ten selected recipes analyzed in this study were only from the Thai main course recipes category. The vocabulary used is categorized into 8 categories as parts of speech; noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and determiner. The results of the study showed that there were 1,468 words with 8 types of parts of speech. The results revealed that in the ten recipes it used nouns the most with 372 words (37.2%) and least is pronoun with 10 words (0.7%). Results of the study showed that learners can study many different kinds of words. The learner can analyze the function and kind of the word that is in the instruction; the base form of part of speech is helpful for making instruction in the recipe writing.

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  • IntroductionEnglish has become an international language that is widely used around the world

  • At present, English has become an international language that is widely used around the world

  • The purpose of this study was to survey vocabulary used in online Thai food recipes from two websites www.BBCGoodFood.com and www.ThaiTable.com

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Introduction

English has become an international language that is widely used around the world. It plays a dominant role as a first, second or foreign language in many countries. There is an increasing demand for using English as a foreign language in several countries. There are approximately over two billion people in the world speaking English, with varying degrees of fluency. In present global education, online English websites enable students to assimilate many aspects of the English language, especially everyday English. Learning English through online English websites assists one to practice English by listening, speaking, reading and writing. Learning English through online English websites assists one to practice English by listening, speaking, reading and writing. Benson (1985) explains that the website is important to organizations and is recognized by all Industries including educational organizations and

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