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Thanut Panrat; Vimolchaya Yanasugondha – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This study analyzes four English synonyms -- clear, obvious, apparent, and evident -- concentrating on meanings, distribution across genre, collocations, and semantic preference and prosody. The data were drawn from learner's dictionaries and the Corpus of the Contemporary American English (COCA). It was discovered that the four synonyms share the…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Dictionaries, Definitions, North American English
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Thienkalaya, Chanukrit; Chusanachoti, Ruedeerath – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
The aim of the study was to explore the effect of Readers Theater on improving English reading prosody with L2 learners. The process of how reading prosody is improved through Readers Theater was examined. Sixty EFL undergraduate students, non-English majors, participated in this 6-week study. Two cycles of Readers Theater were implemented. Using…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Suprasegmentals, Reading Fluency, Second Language Learning
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Isarankura, Soisithorn – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2018
This paper reports the qualitative analysis of an interlanguage study investigating Thai EFL students' pronunciation of English loanwords used in the Thai language. It aims to analyze the extent to which the stress and tonal systems in Thai affect the stress placement of English polysyllabic loanwords in the pronunciation of Thai students, as…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Oral Reading, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
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Tunskul, Thidawan; Piamsai, Chatraporn – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2016
This study compared various measures used to assess oral reading fluency skills in relation to reading comprehension. The participants were 54 first year students from the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. An English Oral Reading Fluency (EORF) test and a set of comprehension questions were devised. Then, the scores of rate,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language