Using Concordance-based Materials to Enhance Collocation and Semantic Prosody Knowledge of Thai EFL High School Students
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A corpus is a collection of naturally-occurring texts that can be retrieved and analyzed to find out how language is used. In EFL classrooms, language corpora have been used to promote students’ awareness of lexical behaviour, such as collocations and connotations. Despite its widespread use among practitioners in many instructional contexts to enhance students’ learning, little attention has been paid to using concordance-based materials to improve collocations and semantic prosodies of Thai high school students who learn English as a foreign language (EFL).
Thus, this paper first briefly reviews the significance of collocations and semantic prosodies for Thai high school students. It then analyzes situations of teaching and learning vocabularies in a Thai context and investigates how corpus materials can be utilized for improving students’ vocabulary learning. Finally, it suggests how to use concordancing materials and Data-Driven Learning (DDL) to enhance collocations and semantic prosodies knowledge of the learners.
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