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Yuki Takahashi; Narathip Thumawongsa – rEFLections, 2024
In recent years, the shift in the teaching approaches employed in Thai English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom provides new opportunities and challenges to the teachers and students form Generation Z (1995-2009) and Generation Alpha (2010-2024). This study examines verb errors among Thai EFL learners from Generation Z and Generation Alpha to…
Descriptors: Age Groups, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Dobson, James Anthony; Sojisirikul, Phanitphim – rEFLections, 2023
This study aimed to identify teacher perceptions of the causes of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA) through feedback, and what feedback strategies teachers use to reduce FLCA. Feedback can be both a cause of FLCA and help to reduce FLCA. It is therefore important for teachers to understand how their feedback can affect FLCA. In the present…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pathanasin, Saranya; Eschstruth, Ian – rEFLections, 2022
The aim of this study is twofold: to analyze politeness strategies in the online conversations of Thai students, and to suggest how this analysis can be applicable to pedagogical practice. A corpus of a 21-month instant online conversation among students and teachers has been analyzed. Throughout the time of data collection, the teachers…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Undergraduate Students, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
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Wattananukij, Wattana; Pongpairoj, Nattama – rEFLections, 2022
The research investigated pragmatic transfer in responses to English tag questions by L1 Thai learners based on Interlanguage Pragmatics, specifically pragmatic transfer (Kasper & Blum-Kulka, 1993). The L1 Thai learners were categorized into two groups according to their English proficiency levels: advanced and intermediate. Oral and written…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chorbwhan, Rungroj; McLellan, James; Ho, Debbie Guan Eng – rEFLections, 2018
This study aims to investigate (i) the Patani Malay (PM) and Southern Thai (ST) learners' knowledge of English collocations, (ii) the learning strategies employed by the two groups with different levels of English proficiency and (iii) the impact of their learning strategies on their test performance. Thirty-nine student participants from each…
Descriptors: Indonesian Languages, Thai, Language Variation, Phrase Structure
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Thidanan Chanakan; Angkana Tongpoon-Patanasorn – rEFLections, 2016
Roles of first language transfer have been extensively researched during the past decades adopting Contrastive Analysis (CA). However, previous studies have shown that CA has failed to prove and find supports for language transfer. This present study examined language transfer from another perspective proposed by Jarvis and Odlin (2000) by…
Descriptors: Native Language, Transfer of Training, Contrastive Linguistics, Second Language Learning
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Kexin Li; Marilyn Lewis – rEFLections, 2016
Investigations into ways students learn to learn have been carried out for decades, with the results of interest to teachers and students as well as to researchers. The present case study aims to add to what we know about learner strategies by reporting the efforts of one student who had, at the time of her studies, no theoretical knowledge of the…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Higher Education, Student Attitudes