Exploring Thai University Students' Receptive and Productive Knowledge of Collocations across Four Academic Faculties

Autor/in	Dokchandra, Dentisak
Titel	Exploring Thai University Students' Receptive and Productive Knowledge of Collocations across Four Academic Faculties
Quelle	In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 10 (2019) 6, S.115-123 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2203-4714
Schlagwörter	College Students; Grammar; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Phrase Structure; Receptive Language; Expressive Language; Language Tests; Decision Making; Verbs; Nouns; Form Classes (Languages); Knowledge Level; College Faculty; Thailand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Grammatik; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland; Phrasenstruktur; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Language test; Sprachtest; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Analytischer Sprachbau; Wissensbasis; Fakultät
Abstract	The purposes of this study were to investigate the levels of receptive and productive knowledge of English collocations of Thai EFL university students and identify the types of grammatical and lexical collocations reported as most and least known by the students. The participants were 286 third-year regular students affiliated with four academic faculties at a university in northeastern Thailand, in the academic year 2018. The participants' receptive and productive knowledge of collocations was measured through an acceptability judgment test and the collocation productive test. The results revealed that the participants' receptive and productive knowledge of collocations was at a low level; their receptive and productive collocation knowledge was significantly different at a .05 level. At the receptive level, their most known grammatical and lexical collocations were verb + preposition and verb + noun respectively. At the productive level, adjective + preposition and verb + noun were their most known grammatical and lexical collocations respectively. The findings highlighted the growing trend of world-wide English learners displaying a low level of collocation knowledge and implied urgent need of explicit instruction of collocations for EFL learners with an emphasis on the easier-to-understand collocation types. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01