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Zhiliang Yue; Sugunya Ruangjaroon – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This study aims to provide a comprehensive profile of collocational competence, a key component of one's overall linguistic competence. For the maximum of ecological validity, we elicited naturalistic oral/written production data from 84 Chinese intermediate EFL learners and performed a 2×2 fashion of analysis on their performance in each of the…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chanikarn Thatchatham; Nattama Pongpairoj – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This study investigated how input frequency (i.e., type frequency and token frequency) and proficiency levels enhanced the perception of English nominal suffixes by first language (L1) Thai learners. Based on the Usage-based Account (Tomasello, 2003), it was hypothesized that input frequency, i.e., token frequency (frequency of derived forms…
Descriptors: Thai, Native Language, Language Proficiency, Linguistic Input
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Thanachporn Varapongsittikul; Sujinat Jitwiriyanont – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This study aims to investigate the VOT values of English wordinitial plosive consonants produced by young Thai learners to understand current trends in English pronunciation among Thai speakers and its future direction. The study analyzes how phonological mismatches between Thai and English affect the pronunciation of Thai learners, using a speech…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Thai, Native Language, Second Language Instruction
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Li, Xueli; Pongpairoj, Nattama – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This study investigated L1 Chinese learners' acquisition of the English "Noun + Relative Clause (N + RC)" based on Structural Priming (SP)(Bock,1986; Bock & Griffin, 2000) and Lexical Residual Activation (LRA)(Cleland, 2003). It was hypothesized that, based on SP, when L1 Chinese learners were primed by the English "N +…
Descriptors: Native Language, Chinese, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Chatchanok Chanyeam; Nuntana Wongthai – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
The linguistic relativity hypothesis has focused on the influence of grammar in language on speakers' cognition. Previous studies show that speakers of languages with grammatical number (e.g., English) are more aware of the number of objects. Additionally, recent studies reveal that bilinguals who speak languages with different grammatical…
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Schemata (Cognition), Bilingualism
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Tam, Chui Ling – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Group-level self-regulation significantly impacts online collaborative learning performance (Panadero & Järvelä, 2015). Recently, online collaborative learning has been actively implemented in English language education in Japan, and group-level self-regulation, closely related to online collaborative learning, attracts the attention of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nattharmma Namfah – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This study explores how machine translation (MT) influences the English writing process and performance of 29 9th-grade EFL students with limited English proficiency. Over 10 writing tasks conducted during the semester, participants had varied accessibility to MT. The research compared their performance when MT was permitted versus when it was…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Korakoch Attaviriyanupap – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
Cultural awareness is essential in foreign language education. This paper explores two projects that exemplify the integration of cultural elements into foreign language learning involving both first language (L1) and second language (L2) cultures. The first project was initiated in the course "German Cinema". It focuses on the legendary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German, Pronunciation
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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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Teeranate, Kittirit; Singhapreecha, Pornsiri – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This study investigated the acquisition of English "control" and "raising" ("over Experiencer") constructions with three groups of Thai EFL learners (lower intermediate, intermediate, and advanced). Thai and English, with respect to "control," commonly have PRO and infinitive markers, but Thai does not…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Khantiwong, Waraphorn; Thienthong, Atikhom – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This article reports the results of a study that explored Thai EFL learners' repertoire of congruent and incongruent academic English (L2) collocations in relation to their native-Thai language (L1) and academic experience. Eighty Thai tertiary students performed a gap-filling translation test on 15 congruent and 15 incongruent collocations by…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Wongsirichan, Wallapha; Wannaruk, Anchalee; Ward, Jeremy – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
The YN vocabulary test (YN test) is a vocabulary size test that presents test takers with a list of words and asks them to answer yes to the words they know. This test may include nonwords, i.e., imaginary words added to the test to check for guessing. However, there have been no conclusive guidelines about nonword construction. One way of…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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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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Pongyoo, Teerawat; Singhapreecha, Pornsiri – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This study investigated Thai EFL learners' acquisition of English dative constructions, i.e., Prepositional Dative (PD) and Double Object (DO) constructions employing Radford's (2004) Minimalist accounts as a framework and Acceptability Judgment as a task. Two hypotheses were formulated. Firstly, the English PD would be accepted more readily than…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Verbs
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Shutt, Montakarn; Tangkiengsirisin, Supong – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
The purpose of this research is to investigate the variable production of English Object-Experiencer (OE) psych predicates among 80 L1 Thai EFL first-year university students. Psych verbs are notable for posing difficulty for learners due to a unique property that violates Grimshaw's (1990) Thematic Hierarchy. The participants were given a cloze…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Form Classes (Languages)
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