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Ruangjaroon, Sugunya – English Language Teaching, 2015
In this paper, I adopt Best's (2001) Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) to account for how Thai learners acquire English prepositions in prepositional phrases and propose the ranking order of English preposition acquisition into three different categories. The ranking is as follows: Category A is a one-to-one semantic mapping between English and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning
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Karimnia, Amin; Afghari, Akbar – English Language Teaching, 2010
In this study, Natural Semantic Metalanguage (henceforth NSM) was used to carry out a comparative analysis. The compliment response behavior of native Persian speakers was compared with that of Native American English speakers to see if it can provide evidence for applicability of NSM model which is claimed to be universal. The descriptive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning