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Chantajinda, Vatcharit – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2021
The present study investigated the production of English passive constructions among Thai learners as syntactic asymmetry of the construction in question in Thai and English can be attested. In this study, English verbs were categorized into two types: Verb Type 1 and Verb Type 2. The former refers to those that can naturally occur in Thai…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Thai, Grammar
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Boonnoon, Sichabhat – English Language Teaching, 2020
One sub-type of collocations which is under-researched is binomials. The purposes of this study were to investigate Thai EFL students' knowledge of English binomials, determine the syntactic structure of the internal elements of binomials reported as most or least known by them, and test if the students' knowledge of binomials was significantly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Knowledge Level, Second Language Learning
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Pimnada Khemkullanat; Somruedee Khongput – rEFLections, 2023
The present study implements a corpus-assisted approach with data-driven learning (DDL) in the EFL classroom to investigate its effectiveness in learning target grammatical collocations (verb-, adjective-, and noun-preposition collocations) of Thai undergraduate students and to examine the extent to which the students incorporate the collocational…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Fatimah Jeharsae; Theerat Chaweewan; Yusop Boonsuk – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
The global prevalence of English as a lingua franca (ELF) across diverse linguacultural communities within the three circles invites an in-depth analysis of its phonological and lexicogrammatical features, especially among non-native English speakers. This qualitative study investigated these features among 30 Thai students from English and…
Descriptors: Nonstandard Dialects, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tangtorrith, Nipaporn; Pongpairoj, Nattama – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This study aimed to investigate the production of stress in English compound nouns and phrasal verbs by L1 Thai learners. Based on the Interlanguage Hypothesis (Corder, 1982; Selinker, 1972), it was hypothesized that (1) there is a positive relationship between English proficiency levels and accuracy in stress assignment in compound nouns and…
Descriptors: Phonology, Interlanguage, Correlation, English (Second Language)
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McDonough, Kim; De Vleeschauwer, Jindarat – rEFLections, 2021
This cross-sectional study compares the written language of Thai EFL students in their first two years of university study. First- and second-year students (N = 170) wrote opinion paragraphs by hand in response to six prompts. Using automated textual analysis tools, clausal (subordination), phrasal (coordinated phrases and complex nominals), and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Dokchandra, Dentisak – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
The purposes of this study were to investigate the levels of receptive and productive knowledge of English collocations of Thai EFL university students and identify the types of grammatical and lexical collocations reported as most and least known by the students. The participants were 286 third-year regular students affiliated with four academic…
Descriptors: College Students, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jitpraneechai, Narisa – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2019
Focusing on noun phrase complexity in writing, this study adopted Biber, Gray and Poonpon's (2011) hypothesized developmental stages to investigate the academic writing of Thai and native English university students by comparing their argumentative English essays as concerns their usage of noun modification. Prenominal modifiers and postnominal…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Academic Language, Form Classes (Languages)
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Ludington, Jason Darryl – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
Learning spoken word forms is a vital part of second language learning, and CALL lends itself well to this training. Not enough is known, however, about how auditory variation across speech tokens may affect receptive word learning. To find out, 144 Thai university students with no knowledge of the Patani Malay language learned 24 foreign words in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, College Students, Receptive Language
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Yanasugondha, Vimolchaya – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2017
This study examined the effectiveness of the application of the three types of coding which were L2 [right arrow] L1 (Thai) translation, pictorial, and in particular simultaneous L2 [right arrow] L1 and pictorial -- Dual Coding Theory (DCT) to 36 seven-letter English concrete nouns among 58 Thai EFL tertiary students who were at the beginning…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development