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Pattira Sumalee; Apisak Sukying – rEFLections, 2024
This study investigated the effect of derivational suffix instruction on vocabulary knowledge. Fifty-eight high school learners were recruited to participate in the study. The learners were divided into control (n = 29) and experimental (n = 29) groups. The experimental group received a Fundamental English II course with an emphasis on…
Descriptors: Morphemes, High School Students, Comparative Analysis, Vocabulary Development
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Bubchaiya, Nuttiya; Sukying, Apisak – Journal of Education and Learning, 2022
Vocabulary learning strategies are essential in vocabulary acquisition and one particularly important strategy is word part strategy. This quasi-experimental research attempted to investigate the effects of word part strategy instruction on vocabulary knowledge among primary school students in a Thai EFL context. It also sought to explore primary…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
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Sukying, Apisak – TESOL International Journal, 2020
Morphological awareness is essential for the successful use of a language and morphological instruction may facilitate the acquisition of new words. This quasi-experimental research examines the effects of affix instruction on acquiring morphologically complex words. Two measures of receptive and productive affix knowledge were administered to 92…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language
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Prapobaratanakul, Chariya; Pongpairoj, Nattama – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2016
The study investigated variable production of English past tense morphology by an L1 Thai-speaking learner of English. Due to the absence of the past tense inflectional morphology in the Thai language, production of English past tense morphemes poses a persistent problem for L1 Thai-speaking learners of English. Hypotheses have been made in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Morphemes, Morphology (Languages)
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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)
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)