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Chareonkul, Chanakarn; Wijitsopon, Raksangob – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2020
One of the reasons why EFL learners have difficulties with the English present perfect tense is that little attention has been paid to the relationship between patterns and meanings of the tense (Yoshimura et al., 2014). To fill this gap, the present study takes a corpus-driven approach to the pattern-meaning interface of the present perfect,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar, Language Patterns
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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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Chutinan Noobutra – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
The present study investigates whether or not Thai students' English writing skills can be improved by using an online grammar checker. First, typical syntactic errors made by undergraduate students majoring in English and English for Careers were examined. Secondly, possible reasons for syntactic errors in English writing in the light of Lado's…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Suriyapee, Passaraporn; Pongpairoj, Nattama – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2022
This study investigated how the corpus-based teaching approach could enhance L2 acquisition of English infinitive and gerund complements among low English proficiency young Thai learners of English. The students were divided into two groups of 32. One group learned English verbal complements through the corpus approach while the other did through…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chiravate, Boonjeera – English Language Teaching, 2018
Investigating the L2 temporality, most previous studies within the Aspect Hypothesis framework focused on the basic meanings or prototypical uses of past morphology. The present study, however, including other less prototypical uses of past morphology, addresses 2 questions: (i) how the uses of simple past and past progressive morphology change as…
Descriptors: Role, Native Language, Verbs, Morphology (Languages)
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Jaroongkhongdach, Woravut – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2015
Using reporting verbs in research writing seems to be a problem for graduate students (or novice researchers) when writing a research paper. The aim of this paper is to raise the awareness of students in using reporting verbs. The main argument in this paper is based on the comparison of reporting verbs used by two expert researchers and two Thai…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Foreign Countries, Research Papers (Students)
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Karanjakwut, Chalermsup – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The research aimed at 1) To investigate students' linguistic features of Englishes found in writing in the Facebook closed group's posts and comments, and 2) To investigate types of characteristics of localised features of Thai in English writing found in students' writing in the Facebook closed group's posts and comments. The participants were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Skills
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Phuket, Pimpisa Rattanadilok Na; Othman, Normah Binti – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Writing is the most difficult skill in English, so most EFL students tend to make errors in writing. In assisting the learners to successfully acquire writing skill, the analysis of errors and the understanding of their sources are necessary. This study attempts to explore the major sources of errors occurred in the writing of EFL students. It…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Watcharapunyawong, Somchai; Usaha, Siriluck – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study aimed at analyzing writing errors caused by the interference of the Thai language, regarded as the first language (L1), in three writing genres, namely narration, description, and comparison/contrast. 120 English paragraphs written by 40 second year English major students were analyzed by using Error Analysis (EA).The results revealed…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interference (Language)
Chiravate, Boonjeera – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2011
As regards the acquisition of L2 verbal morphology, one of the universal tendencies as elucidated by the Interlanguage Discourse Hypothesis (Bardovi-Harlig, 1994, p.43) is that language learners use emerging verbal morphology to distinguish foreground and background in narratives. This present study examines whether Thai EFL learners' use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Morphology (Languages)