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Pong-ampai Kongcharoen; Jiraporn Dhanarattigannon; Tirote Thongnuan – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2024
This study aimed to investigate the lexical competence of English-major EFL students. The learner corpus comprised 552 pieces of writing by sophomore English majors during five academic years between 2017 and 2021, containing 190,506words in total. The results from Vocab Profile program showed that these students used words contained in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Departments, Writing Assignments, Majors (Students)
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Worawanna Petchkij – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2023
Studies examining how EFL learners paraphrase hedges in scientific statements are still rare even though how learners use hedges in academic writing has been extensively investigated. This study compared paraphrasing strategies that Thai (TH) and non-Thai (NTH) EFL medical science graduate students used to paraphrase given hedges appearing in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Jiang, Shuyi; Lee, Kam-Fong; Ang, Chin-Siang – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2022
The literature suggests that academic writing skills have a significant impact on the academic success of university students. Many Chinese ESL students, in particular, struggle with mastering these skills while studying abroad. The purpose of this mixed-methods study is to explore Chinese international students' perceptions of academic writing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes
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Tocalo, Abdul Wahid I.; Racman, Shainah P.; Guiamelon, Kyla Nicole Alibai G.; Mama, Bainarin M. – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2022
The observation of informalities in academic writing has become tremendous in recent years, as revealed by a plethora of cross-cultural and diachronic studies. Different users of English have already been explored; however, none has centered on the case of English as a Second Language (henceforth ESL) writers, such as Filipino academic writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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He, Mei; Pramoolsook, Issra – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2022
Thesis defense presentation slides (TDPS) are a significant and unique genre in the final ritual of master's students' learning journey. However, few studies have explored this genre, especially its rhetorical structure, so students have scant knowledge of it. This study investigates the moves and steps of this genre focusing on their Introduction…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Applied Linguistics, Graduate Students, Asians
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Thomas, Nathan – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2020
Classroom assessment practices can be confusing for many teachers. Terminology is numerous and elusive. Different types of assessment serve different purposes. This short discussion paper's contribution originates from my own attempt to determine whether analytic scales would be more appropriate than holistic scales for assessing the L2 writing…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation
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Tongpoon-Patanasorn, Angkana; Griffith, Karl – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2020
Machine translation (MT), especially Google Translate (GT), is widely used by language learners and those who need help with translation. MT research, particularly that which examines the quality and usability of the translation produced by the MT, only makes up a handful of studies. Moreover, only a few of them have looked at translation quality…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)