An effect of a direct method on grade 5 students acquisition of verb inflectional morphemes (-s, -es, -ing, -ed) : a case study at Assumption college Ubon Ratchathani

The purpose of this study is to investigate how a direct method could help develop grade 5 students as Foreign Language (EFL) learner’s language proficiency in the area of verb inflectional morphemes (- s, - es, - ed, - ing) at Assumption college Ubon Ratchathani (ACU)
The participants of this study were 6 students of grade 5 at Assumption College Ubon Ratchathani. The participants were divided into two groups of 3 based on their English proficiency; Low language proficiency and high language proficiency.
Data for this research were collected from two main sources: the occurrence of the participants’ usage of verb inflectional morphemes (-s , - es, -ed, and - ing) in the video transcript when they tried to make use of them and the scores of pre-test and post-test. Additionally, the students were required to do an informal interview regarding the use of a direct method in teaching the three functional morphemes of four forms. The interview was mainly concerned with students’ opinion towards the direct method.
The results showed that the direct method could help students develop their ability in using the verb inflectional morphemes. It also improved their proficiency in some of other important language skills, such as listening and speaking. The resulted also indicated that the direct method worked well with not only the high language proficiency students, but also with the students who had low English proficiency.