Thai EFL Students’ Ability to use the Gerund and To-infinitive

Kitikanan, Patchanok

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“…Different to (Kitikanan, 2016) her study resulted that it was found that Thai students had low proficiency on both types of verbal complements. It also showed that their to infinitive knowledge was lower than their gerund knowledge.…”

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Student’s Ability and Factors to Use Gerund and To Infinitive Case Study: Indonesian EFL Learners in University Level

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2019

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Mastering grammar seems very challenging for English foreign language learners. Learning grammar constructions that they do not find or have different system to their first language bring some consequences. One of them is on learning about gerund and to infinitive. The objectives of this study are to describe the ability on mastering gerund and infinitive form and to analyze the factors affecting them to learning its form. This study used descriptive method. The respondents of this research were the students who took English Structure subject on second year of Indraprasta PGRI University Jakarta. Moreover, the data was collected through the instruments, and they were test and questionnaire. The data was analyzed descriptively, and it was tabulated and calculated. Next, it was presented in percent form. After analyzing the data descriptively, the research result is the ability of the students on mastering the using of gerund is on very poor range that is 41.82% (23 out of 55), in other words, it can be said that more than half respondents were still in low understanding of gerund, in the same time, mastering the using to-infinitive form is on very poor range that is 36.36% (20 out of 55), or it can be said that the respondents were still low in understanding of to infinitive. The factors affecting them were being passive, lack of motivation, slow learning, less practice in doing exercises, poor of literature, and not learning from the mistakes. These findings may encourage the lecturer of English Structure to find out more ways to improve student’s ability especially on using gerund and to infinitive for Indonesian EFL Learners in University level.

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Student’s Ability and Factors to Use Gerund and To Infinitive Case Study: Indonesian EFL Learners in University Level

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“…It is not that easy for learners to acquire the knowledge of non-finite verbs, since they turn out a subordinate construction that modifies another matrix constituent. The constituents of non-finite verb are hardly explained by language practitioners and grammarians (Kitikanan, 2011;Taher, 2015). It convinces that the construction is rather difficult to classify and clarify.…”

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The Frequency Effect on the Acquisition of –ING Form Structure by Indonesia L2 Learners

Aziz

Widodo

2018

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Even though –ing form is acquired earlier based on the natural order hypotheses of L2 morpheme acquisition, it remains difficult for L2 learners to acquire mainly for those who are not frequently exposed to the targeted linguistic feature inputs. A number of investigations were already carried out to find out the frequency effect on the acquisition of verbs as a complement (gerund and infinitive), yet this paper was designed to identify the role of frequency on the acquisition of English –ing form structure by Indonesia L2 learners. Participants consisted of four groups from different semester (1,3,5, and 7). Each semester also indicated various language exposure experienced by L2 learners. Each group comprised 10 participants. Data were collected by employing the writing test to elicit –ing form production including interview and observation. The coding of students’ composition was carried out to determine the correct productions—which were scored to interpret frequency effect on students’ acquisition and their misconceptions in composing a sentence containing –ing forms. The findings revealed that the rate of frequency inputs of –ing form structure accessed by learners fairly contributed to students’ constructional schemas in accordance with the high score. Each word possessed various frequency inputs of distribution which then led them to any deviant production. In addition, intra-lingual errors were responsible for any misconception perceived by learners (overgeneralization, ignorance of rule restriction, and false concepts hypothesized).

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“…According to Ellis (2002), the frequency of linguistic items in which second language (L2) learners have been exposed to can possibly become the facilitator for their second language acquisition. Nevertheless, the exact role of frequency has yet to be clearly understood, particularly, in the context of second language acquisition (SLA) (Almulla, (Kitikanan, 2011). This study revealed that L1 Thai learners were better in using the gerund complements than the infinitive complements.…”

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“…infinitive and gerund complement constructions is very difficult to teach or almost unteachable because of their complexity(Kitikanan, 2011;Schwartz & Causarano, 2007). Besides, it is also impossible to classify the verbs triggering the infinitive complement construction from the verbs triggering the gerund complement construction without consulting with a good dictionary(Swan, 2005).…”

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“…Besides, it is also impossible to classify the verbs triggering the infinitive complement construction from the verbs triggering the gerund complement construction without consulting with a good dictionary(Swan, 2005). Finally, it is more interesting to look specifically at L1Thai learners' production and perception of English infinitive and gerund complement constructions because it can possibly be said that there are no parallel of the infinitive and the gerund verbal complement constructions between English and Thai(Lekawatana et al, 1969; Mallikamas, 2010).To the best of the researcher's knowledge, there has been a lot of research exploring the acquisition of infinitive and gerund complements among L2 English learners from different native languages(Almulla, 2015;Cook, 1996;Mazurkewich, 1988;Schwartz & Causarano, 2007;Shirahata, 1990; Wakabayashi, Hokari, Haniu, Fujimoto, & Kimura, 2016), including L1 Thai learners(Kitikanan, 2011;Samana, 2005). However, while most of the studies agreed that L2 learners of English acquired the infinitive complements before the gerund complements(Almulla, 2015;Cook, 1996;Mazurkewich, 1988;Samana, 2005;Schwartz & Causarano, 2007;Shirahata, 1990;Wakabayashi et al, 2016), one research findings showed a contradiction…”

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The Acquisition Order of L2 English Infinitive and Gerund Complements by L1 Thai Learners: A Usage-Based Approach

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The current study aimed to investigate the frequency effects on the acquisition of L2 English infinitive and gerund complements among L1 Thai learners. The participants were first-year undergraduate students from They were categorized into the low and the high proficiency groups based on their CU-TEP scores. Each group consisted of 30 participants. The participants were required to complete the Word Selection Task (WST) and the Grammaticality Judgement Test (GJT). Two research hypotheses were formulated based on the usage-based theory. First, it was hypothesized that Thai learners would acquire the infinitive complements before the gerund complements and the findings conformed to the hypothesis. It was claimed that the learners acquired the infinitive complements first because they were the high type frequency construction. In contrast, the learners acquired the gerund complements later because they were the low frequency construction. In other words, the high type frequency construction facilitated L2 English learners because they were exposed more to this construction type. Second, it was hypothesized that the frequency of verbs occurring in the target complements constructions would contribute to the entrenchment of the Thai learners? low level constructional schemas (i.e. the abstract representations of constructions which were lexically specific) and their language. The results, however, partially confirmed the second hypothesis as the findings indicated that the frequency of verbs occurring in the target complements constructions did not contribute to the strengthening of the Thai learners? low level constructional schemas and affect their language use. The results of the study contributed to the concept of frequency and its vital role in the SLA context.

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Thai EFL Students’ Ability to use the Gerund and To-infinitive

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Student’s Ability and Factors to Use Gerund and To Infinitive Case Study: Indonesian EFL Learners in University Level

Student’s Ability and Factors to Use Gerund and To Infinitive Case Study: Indonesian EFL Learners in University Level

The Frequency Effect on the Acquisition of –ING Form Structure by Indonesia L2 Learners

The Acquisition Order of L2 English Infinitive and Gerund Complements by L1 Thai Learners: A Usage-Based Approach

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