The purposes of the study are: 1) to compare Thai and English speakers’ degree of time specification, and 2) to compare their abilities in remembering temporal information and ordertinf the situations chronologically
The Hypotheses are the degree of time specification in English travelogues written by native speakers of English is higher than that in Thai travelogues written by native speakers of Thai, and that English speakers remember temporal information more accurately than Thai speakers and put the given situations in chronological order more correctly than Thai speakers.
The study is expected to explain behaviors between Thai and English speakers caused by the language they speak and allow us to see the relationship between language and culture more clearly. The relationship can be seen obviously in the culture of keeping records giving temporal details and the significance of punctuality in Western societies. Thai speakers, on the contrary, do not usually keep record and puncuality is less important to that people than to Western people. Moreover, this study may be helpful for further study on the relationship between tense or other grammatical categories and the speaker’s cognitive system and also for language teaching.
