Teaching articles by using the concepts of generic and assumed shared and non-shared knowledge of the referent :A case study of matthayomsuksa six students at Thungsriudom school

This study was to investigate whether teaching articles by using the concepts of Generic and Assumed Shared and Non-shared Knowledge of the Referent would increase the students' ability in using the articles more correctly. The instruments of the study were a proficiency test used as the pre- and post-tests and in-class instructions and practices. The results of the study revealed that teaching articles by using the concepts of Generic and Assumed Shared and Non-shared Knowledge of the Referent enabled students to use the articles more correctly. The students better gained the concept of Assumed shared knowledge of the referent than the concepts of Generic and Assumed Non-shared knowledge of the referent. The overall teaching also worked batter for the high and medium groups than the low one (P=0.05)