Thang Nguyen Tat

University of Dalat

Vietnamese has to date been considered to be a language without infixation. This study is an attempt to change that notion. Infixation does exist in the Vietnamese language, but in restricted discoursal and social contexts. Our analysis shows that infixes have pragmatic functions and convey one of three implications. They can be used to (1) to expr...

The amount of learners’ vocabulary is the most important factor in detecting students’ proficiency, competence, and level of learners of English. Vocabulary teaching methods have been appealed to linguists, especially in the TESOL field. This paper aims to discuss three cognitive-linguistic principles in teaching vocabulary for EFL learners of Engl...

In teaching reading, teachers might place emphasis on Cooperative Learning (CL) as an effective instructional method in which students of the different levels might cooperate with each other in groups to achieve a common goal. This research paper aims at investigating the CL's with respect to Vietnamese learners of English in reading comprehension...

This study aims at examining whether university students are ready to transform and adapt to the emergence of online teaching and learning, which serves as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The factors that usually influence students' ability to change their learning habits and adapt to these changes readily have usually been proposed from theor...

The present study is concerned with the diversity of the semantic and syntactic properties of the morpheme có in Vietnamese. The morpheme có possesses a variety of meanings and syntactic structures. Morpheme có may mean HAVE or THERE BE in English, and may also serve as a modal/auxiliary. The paper presents a thorough analysis of the semantic and s...

Good command of language, e.g. vocabulary, grammar, does not always guarantee success in communication. Learners of language need to be equipped with both language and the knowledge of how to use it, i.e. pragmatics. This paper investigates the attitudes of English-majored students at a university in Vietnam towards the knowledge of pragmatics of l...

English prepositions play a significant role in helping students form a well-structured sentence in their learning and communicating. To help Vietnamese learners of English acquire their competence, the authors have done survey research to investigate the factors affecting the uses of English prepositions made by Vietnamese learners of English. The...

The present study is concerned with the diversity of the semantic and syntactic properties of the morpheme có in Vietnamese. The morpheme có possesses a variety of meanings and syntactic structures. Morpheme có may mean HAVE or THERE BE in English, and may also serve as a modal/auxiliary. The paper presents a thorough analysis of the semantic and s...

Chatbots or artificially intelligent conversational tools are the automatically new tools designed to interact humans and computers. The tool of chatbot system is very effective in marketing and launching new products. Using chatbot as a tool of learning with logical sequences of cognition has attracted a lot of attention from many foreign language...

This article investigates factors that influence the use of English expressions made by Vietnamese native students at Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry (HUFI). The research is conducted to analyze the factors that validly affect the usage of prepositions by EFL learners based on a variety of personal data and background of the participan...

Sử dụng lý thuyết Hình - Nền để nghiên cứu câu bị động tiếng Anh.

Ngôn ngữ học ứng dụng đã và đang đóng một vai trò quan trọng trong nhiều lĩnh vực, như nghiên cứu và giảng dạy ngôn ngữ, đánh giá ngôn ngữ, chính sách ngôn ngữ, v.v. Do đó, việc hiểu rõ ngôn ngữ học ứng dụng và các nghiên cứu ngôn ngữ học ứng dụng có liên quan với những tiểu ngành nào trong ngôn ngữ là một điều cần thiết. Bài viết này trình bày các...

Nghiên cứu cấu trúc câu bị động dưới góc nhìn của lý thuyết điển mẫu.

This paper illustrates the relationship between language and embodiment through evidence of the English and Vietnamese language. Evidence presented confirms that there is a close correlation between language and embodiment, thus inferring the implication for the job of teaching and learning languages, which requires the task takers to be equipped w...

This paper is an attempt to formulate and systematize so-called passive sentences in Vietnamese according to categories based on the theory of cognitive categorization. The paper makes the claim that Vietnamese does have a passive voice, and provides a foundation for a proposal of a Vietnamese passive prototype.

This paper presents the concept of embodiment in language, one of the key notions in cognitive linguistics, or in cognitive semantics in particular. Cognitive semantics claims that the meaning of language is embodied, which means that it is the speaker’s bodily experience that triggers the linguistic expressions which carry the meaning(s) to the he...

The paper presents the relationship between language users’ cognitive perspectives and their ways of using linguistic expressions. A specific case is studied to illustrate the point - the use of prepositions in Vietnamese when referring to space, e.g. the living room. Speakers’ perspectives on the event or situation being reported play a vital role...