The Use of English Reduced Adverbial Clauses among L1 Thai Learners
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This study investigated L1 Thai English language learners’ production of two types of reduced adverbial clauses (RACs): temporal and logical. It also identified whether the presence of past participles and present participles in such clauses influenced learners’ RAC production. It was hypothesized that L1 Thai English language learners would use unreduced adverbial clauses (ACs) over RACs because the latter clauses differ from their Thai equivalents. Thirty upper-intermediate L1 Thai learners undertook a comprehension test and an indirect preference assessment (IPA) task. Overall, the participants supplied more RACs than ACs possibly due to their exposure to the RACs and the IPA task’s choice provision. Furthermore, the effects of the participle and clausal types on the participants’ production might involve the grammatical complexity of certain subfactors. Only when encountering the more ambiguous past participles or logical clauses did the learners supply fewer RACs than ACs.
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