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Aroonmanakun, Vilaivan; Aroonmanakun, Wirote – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This paper studies the two English synonymous words "little" and "small," and their Thai equivalents n??j4 and lek4. In addition to monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, British National Corpus, Thai National Corpus and an English-Thai parallel corpus were used in this study. It is found that "little" and…
Descriptors: English, Thai, Contrastive Linguistics, Dictionaries
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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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Stevens, Catherine J.; Keller, Peter E.; Tyler, Michael D. – Psychology of Music, 2013
An experiment investigated the effect of tonal language background on discrimination of pitch contour in short spoken and musical items. It was hypothesized that extensive exposure to a tonal language attunes perception of pitch contour. Accuracy and reaction times of adult participants from tonal (Thai) and non-tonal (Australian English) language…
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, Intervals, Thai
Facchinetti, Roberta, Ed.; Crystal, David, Ed.; Seidlhofer, Barbara, Ed. – Peter Lang Bern, 2010
All languages encode aspects of culture and every culture has its own specificities to be proud of and to be transmitted. The papers in this book explore aspects of this relationship between language and culture, considering issues related to the processes of internationalization and localization of the English language. The volume is divided into…
Descriptors: Group Membership, English, Jews, Foreign Countries