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The Effect of Corpus-based Instruction on Thai Nursing Students? Knowledge of English Lexical Collocation

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  • BUTSAKORN YODKAMLUE

    (Suranaree University of Technology)

  • Kantapat Trinart

    (Suranaree University of Technology)

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This experimental research study investigated the knowledge of Thai nursing students on lexical collocations extracted from a Sample Corpus of Nursing Research Articles (SCNRA) and examined the effect of a corpus-based instruction on the students? performance. The participants were 51 fourth year nursing students from the Institute of Nursing, Suranaree University of Technology (SUT) in Thailand. The pre-test was administered, followed by a workshop on the target collocations and the post-test administered at the end. The results from the pre-test revealed the overall knowledge of the majority of the students was at a ?Fair? level. The pre-test and the post-test results were compared using the paired samples t-test which showed a statistically significant improvement of the students? performance in the total score (t(50) = (-11.75), p =

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  • BUTSAKORN YODKAMLUE & Kantapat Trinart, 2019. "The Effect of Corpus-based Instruction on Thai Nursing Students? Knowledge of English Lexical Collocation," Proceedings of International Academic Conferences 9711738, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:sek:iacpro:9711738
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    collocation knowledge; lexical collocation; collocation test; nursing collocation test; corpus-based instruction;
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