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Journal : Inspiring: English Education Journal

A Corpus-Based Study of Grammatical Collocation on Asian EFL Learners Paris, Nirma; Samad, Pratiwi; Namchan, Monsinee
Inspiring: English Education Journal Vol 6 No 2 (2023): Inspiring: English Education Journal
Publisher : Institut Agama Islam Negeri Parepare

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35905/inspiring.v6i2.6252

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This article presents a corpus-based study that investigated grammatical collocations. The study aimed to examine and analyze grammatical collocations employed by Asian EFL learners at Khon Kaen University in Thailand. An Asian learner corpus was built with 38,338 tokens from 20 academic writing papers of Asian EFL learners. The written learner corpus consists of Thai, The Chinese, Indonesian, and The Philippines of academic papers. CLAWS tagger, AntConc (Windows 3.4.4), and manual analysis were used to analyze the data. The results of the study found that grammatical collocations employed by Asian EFL learners at Khon Kaen University were 1,941 tokens of noun + preposition, 467 tokens of verb + preposition, 147 tokens of adjective + preposition, and none of preposition + noun was used in the papers. The study also revealed that the learners used similar prepositions in the top 10 frequency, but the arrangement order was different. In addition, there were a few of the same collocated words that used by the learners from each country.
An Innovative Strategy in Learning English as A Foreign Language rafiqa, Rafiqa; Yasim, Sukmawati; Paris, Nirma; Sabil, Marhaeni
Inspiring: English Education Journal Vol 7 No 2 (2024): Inspiring: English Education Journal
Publisher : Institut Agama Islam Negeri Parepare

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35905/inspiring.v7i2.9049

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The present study aimed to delve into the students’ EFL vocabulary and response to the discovery learning strategy. A pre-experimental research design was applied in this study. The population of this study was first-year Sulawesi Barat University students who enrolled in vocabulary courses in the first semester, and the researchers used a random sampling technique to choose 42 students. This study found that the discovery learning strategy elevated the students’ English vocabulary. It was found that there are critical contrasts between the mean scores of the pre-test and post-test. The students’ pre-test score was 63.42, and the understudies' post-test score was 89.09, which is higher than the pre-test score. It demonstrated a critical improvement in students' accomplishment after carrying out revelation learning in instructing English vocabulary. Another result revealed that the students provided positive responses toward applying the discovery learning strategy in learning vocabulary, stated 53% of students agreed and 33% strongly agreed with the strategy, however 10% neutral, 3% disagreed and 1% strongly disagreed. Based on positive responses, the most of the students perceived that the discovery learning strategy benefits them in learning English.