Thai EFL Learners' Knowledge of Congruent and Incongruent Academic L2 Collocations

Autor/inn/en	Khantiwong, Waraphorn; Thienthong, Atikhom
Titel	Thai EFL Learners' Knowledge of Congruent and Incongruent Academic L2 Collocations
Quelle	In: LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 15 (2022) 1, S.809-835 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2630-0672
Schlagwörter	Phrase Structure; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Academic Language; Thai; Native Language; English for Academic Purposes; Vocabulary Skills; Teaching Methods; Foreign Countries; Semantics; Undergraduate Students; Language Tests; Knowledge Level; Thailand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Phrasenstruktur; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Aktiver Wortschatz; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ausland; Semantik; Language test; Sprachtest; Wissensbasis
Abstract	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 providing equivalent L2 collocates. The results indicated that the students' greater exposure to academic discourse increased their acquisition of academic collocations. However, overall they demonstrated insufficient knowledge of academic collocations, especially incongruent L1-L2 combinations. This is because they depended heavily on their L1 lexicon and general L2 lexis to compensate for their lack of knowledge and awareness of typical academic L2 collocations. The results suggest that although L2 exposure has a facilitative effect on collocation acquisition, it is still imperative that EFL learners receive explicit instruction which is devoted to elaborating and disambiguating the L1 and L2 meanings of academic collocations and their component words in isolation. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Language Institute of Thammasat University. The Prachan Campus, 2 Prachan Road, Bangkok 10200 Thailand. e-mail: learnjournal@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/learn
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01