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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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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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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)