The Effects of Mother-Language Interference and Commonly Used Textbooks on the Selection of Japanese Transitive and Intransitive Verbs in Thai Learners
Keywords:
Japanese Verb Pairs, Transitive, Intransitive, Language Acquisition, TextbookAbstract
The purposes of this study were to investigate factors that influence the selection of Japanese transitive and intransitive verbs and how those factors affect Thai students' acquisition of Japanese transitive and intransitive verbs. Due to the key of language learning, the effects of mother language and language instruction have been highly supportive and counter to language improvement. To support those keys of learning, this study applied questionnaires and textbook observations to investigate whether these factors influenced the selection of transitive and intransitive verbs. 53 participants in Thai Japanese studies completed all the questionnaires. The results revealed that Thai learners had a strong preference for transitive verbs over intransitive verbs. Moreover, one of the important factors also found was that the impact of Japanese textbooks highly affected the selection of particular types of verbs. This study looked at Japanese textbooks that were commonly used in Thailand. The results showed that transitive verbs were found more frequently than intransitive verbs. According to these results, the extensive introduction of a certain type of verb from the mother language effects and Japanese textbooks influence the selected Japanese verb type.
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