Lexical Collocations in a Sample Corpus of Tourism Research Articles (SCTRA)
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This corpus-based study was conducted in an attempt to facilitate the teaching and learning of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and benefit Thais who work in the field of tourism by exploring lexical collocations in Tourism Research Articles. A Sample Corpus of Tourism Research Articles (SCTRA), with a corpus size of over 1.5 million running words, was compiled from 240 research articles from six journals in the field of tourism and hospitality management. Nine hundred and thirty-two keywords were obtained under the set criteria using the AntConc version 3.5.8. The majority of the keywords were nouns (62.72%), followed by adjectives (18.37%), verbs (16.37%), and adverbs (2.53%) respectively. The keywords were then used as “nodes” to find their “collocates” which generated 2,989 pairs of lexical collocations with 16 combination types, where six combination types were in accordance with the set framework adapted from Benson, Benson and Ilson [1]. The majority of them were Noun + Noun (44.76%), Adjective + Noun (25.89%), and Noun + Verb (9.33%) respectively. The lists of the keywords and the collocations produced were also provided.
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บทความที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวารสารมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ นายเรืออากาศ
ข้อความที่ปรากฎในบทความแต่ละเรื่องในวารสารวิชาการเล่มนี้ เป็นความคิดเห็นส่วนตัวของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่าน ไม่เกี่ยวข้องกับโรงเรียนนายเรืออากาศฯ และคณาจารย์ท่านอื่น ๆในโรงเรียนนายเรืออากาศฯ แต่อย่างใด ความรับผิดชอบขององค์ประกอบทั้งหมดของบทความแต่ละเรื่องเป็นของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่าน หากมีความผิดพลาดใด ๆ ผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านจะรับผิดชอบบทความของตนเองแต่เพียงผู้เดียว
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