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Kanokwan Phongpanya; Natcha Khamhaengrit; Atikhom Thienthong – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
While synonymy has been extensively studied, few studies have examined the ditransitive construction of synonyms across English varieties. Informed by construction grammar viewing pattern-meaning combinations as constructions and using a 1.9-billion-word corpus of texts from 20 countries, this article analyzes four different ways of expressing…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Semantics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Parichart Chimkhlai; Siriporn Panyametheekul – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This research aims to analyze language patterns in hate speech found in comments on YouTube about Rohingya refugees in Thailand and Syrian refugees in Europe. Data were collected from 4,113 comments in Thai and 13,960 comments in English and appeared on a video-sharing website specifically from news clips about Rohingya refugees in Thailand during…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Social Bias, Social Media
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Preeyanan Assawawattanasuntorn; Vanlee Siriganjanavong – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This corpus-based study investigates the similarities and differences among the three synonymous adjectives: "careful," "cautious," and "wary" in terms of genre distribution, collocational patterns, semantic preference, and semantic prosody. Data were drawn from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Nouns, English (Second Language)
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Nasalingkhan, Mewika; Siriganjanavong, Vanlee – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Completing a postgraduate dissertation requires various types of support, whether it be academic, moral, or financial. One way to express gratitude towards those who contribute is through the acknowledgement section. However, the guidelines provided by universities appear to be inadequate to support students, which poses challenges for those who…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Guidelines
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Kietnawin Sridhanyarat; Supong Tangkiengsirisin – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
The purpose of this study is two-fold: 1) to investigate the effects of Data-Driven Learning (DDL) framed within the Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH) on Thai learners' use of academic collocations and 2) to examine how Thai learners utilized the involvement load (IL) components (need, search, and evaluation) to master academic collocations. It is…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Cognitive Ability, Language Tests, Phrase Structure
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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)