Palayon, Raymund
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Palayon, Raymund
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Palayon, Raymund T.
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raymund.pa@kmitl.ac.th
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Item type:Publication, Integrating Corpus-based Methods to Determine Grammatical Topics for Teaching English Writing in the Thai Context(2025-06-01); Grammatical knowledge for effective English writing remains a significant need among Thai university students, while identifying the relevant grammatical topics to address this need continues to be a challenge in teaching writing courses. Previous papers on writing in Thai universities have mainly focused on writing performance issues, rather than proposing methods to address these issues, particularly in grammar. This quantitative case study employed corpus analyses to determine the relevant grammatical topics that address the grammatical needs of a specific group of Thai university students in English writing. ChatGPT was utilized to improve the essays of the target students, resulting in two datasets (namely, students’ essays and refined essays). Keyword analysis was employed to illustrate their grammatical characteristics. Biber’s (1988; 1989) multidimensional analysis and key part-of-speech analysis were applied to verify the keyword findings and determine the target grammatical topics for teaching writing. The analyses revealed 12 significant grammatical features that address the grammatical needs of the target students in English writing (namely, nominalizations, determiners, present participial clauses, prepositional phrases, attributive adjectives, conjuncts, independent clause coordination, phrasal coordination, past participial clauses, that relative clauses in the subject position, adverbial subordinators, and sentence relatives). These features can make the students’ writing compositions informational, narrative, and formal, reflecting the characteristics of academic language. This paper provides procedures for identifying grammatical topics that are aligned with the current grammatical needs of students in writing. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The Language of Praise and Worship: A Corpus Analysis of Register Variation in Christian Songs(2025-01-01); Dalona, Irish Mae F.Songs play a central role in Christianity, not only as musical expressions of faith but also as powerful tools for influencing beliefs and behavior. Some churches utilize hymns, while others prefer contemporary Christian songs. Despite their significance in shaping religious views and practices, the language of Christian songs remains underexamined in linguistic research. Previous studies have analyzed only a small number of texts and focused on limited linguistic features, providing a limited understanding of their stylistic functions. This paper examined the key linguistic features in the two sets of Christian songs—church hymns and contemporary Christian songs—to illustrate their register variation, using multidimensional analysis, key semantic tag analysis, and key part-of-speech analysis. From the analyses, the church hymns display features associated with scriptural texts (e.g., God, salvation, Jesus), adoration (e.g., glory, bless, rejoice), and appreciation (e.g., gracious, thankful, grateful), illustrating the informational and context-independent characteristics in these songs. The contemporary Christian songs display features associated with life-related situations (e.g., breakdown, failure, loss), spiritual relationships (e.g., me, you), and an engaging style of communication (e.g., I, we, your), illustrating the context-dependent and persuasive characteristics in these songs. This study provides a framework for characterizing the linguistic features of worship songs from non-Christian contexts, enabling future research to compare religious music across different traditions.