Thainess Imagination Appeared in Graded Reader for Students in The Lower Secondary Education

Abstract

This article aims to study the concept of Thainess in the graded reader in lower secondary school. The issue of Thainess is one of the desirable characteristics to develop students’ intellectual and moral virtues. The result was found that; Graded reader is the set of disciplines that influence the learner’s motivation and cultivate a social ideology very well. The Thainess imagination is presented in many dimensions, namely, Thainess with its traditions, intellectual imagery, religious imagery and imagery about the monarchy. Graded reader is a powerful mechanism that is offered through language to create good citizenship discipline as well as creating a sense of Thainess according to Nationalist ideology.