7%, 51.1%, 50.3%, AND 56.8% RESPECTIVELY) I WRAPPED AN OLD COTTON B...

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49.7%, 51.1%, 50.3%, and 56.8% respectively) I wrapped an old cotton bedspread about my (see Table 1). shoulders and legs. (No.5) I hesitated, made no decision. A. Vì việc tránh cái nắng chói chang, tôi A. Tôi do dự, không quyết bề nào. [I cuốn một tấm khăn trải giường bằng vải hesitated, did not decide anything.] bông cũ quanh vai và hai chân. [For B. Tôi do dự, không đưa ra sự quyết định protection from the white sun, …] nào. [I hesitated, did not  make any B. Để tránh cái nắng chói chang, tôi cuốn decisions] một tấm khăn trải giường bằng vải (No.7) Vic, said his mother with a note of bông cũ quanh vai và hai chân. [In warning. order to protect from the white sun, …] A. Vic, mẹ nó nói với vẻ răn đe. [Vic, his (No. 35.) “I”m not really in practice.” mother said with a note of warning.] A. Cháu chưa tập tành gì cả. [I did not B. Vic, mẹ nó  đe. [Vic, his mother practise anything.] warned.] B. Việc tập tành của cháu chưa có gì cả. [My practice was not any.] In general, regarding the choice of the five groups of informants as a whole, in 20 out of 35 In ten (10) other sentences, the options with sentences the options with verbs were chosen as verbs were selected by 60 – 74% of sounding more natural by over 75% of respondents. respondents. In 10 other sentences, the options Examples: with verbs were selected by 60% to 74% (No. 22)…he became so consumed with respondents, whereas in the last 5 sentences - watching that I was able to move quietly into by less than 60% of respondents. Four among the room… the last five sentences (No. 5, 7, 10, and 18) have the choice rate lower than 52%. A. Ông mê mải với việc ngắm biển đến mức tôi có thể lẳng lặng vào phòng mà In addition to the four sentences with verbs ông không hay biết. [He became so (No. 5, 7, 10, and 18) that have a low choice rate by the five groups of respondents as a consumed with sea watching that…] whole, the results from the survey also reveal B. Ông ngắm biển mê mải đến mức tôi có seven other sentences with the choice rate of thể lẳng lặng vào phòng mà ông không around 50% by each individual group of hay biết. [He watched the sea so respondents (see Table 2), including No. 3 (by passionately that…] group 4 – students of literature and linguistics), (by group 5 – general readers), No. 23 (by No. 6 [by group 1 (lecturers of English), group group 4), No. 27 (by groups 2 and 4), and No. 2 (postgraduate students of English), and group 32 (by group 5). In what follows, a brief 4 (students of literature and linguistics)], No. 12 description of the seven sentences will be (by group 3 – English-major students), No. 22 provided.Table 2. Verb and noun choice of seven sentences among individual groups of respondents N V N V N V N V N V No.3  No.6  No.12 G4 G1 G2 G4 G3 49% 51% 47% 53% 48% 52% 49% 51% 47% 53% No.22  No.23  No.27  No.32 G5 G4 G2 G4 G5 45% 55% 51% 49% 48% 52% 46% 54% 48% 52% Among the above seven sentences, the B. Không có gì trong những hành động của choice of naturalness of the option with a verb ông có thể đổi khác được tôi, dù chỉ là in sentence No.23 (by respondents of group 4) đôi chút. [Nothing of what he had done is the lowest, 49%, (see Table 2): could change me, although a little bit.] No 23. I did not care for swimming. The option with a verb in sentence No. 22 A. Tôi cũng chẳng thiết bơi. [I did not want was chosen by 55% of respondents in group 5 to swim.] (“bơi” = verb) (see Table 2), while the choice rate of all the five groups as a whole is 74.1% (see Table 1): B. Tôi cũng chẳng quan tâm đến việc bơi lội. [I was also not interested in swimming.] (“việc bơi lội” = noun) The options with verbs in sentences No. 3, A. Ông mê mải với việc ngắm biển đến mức No. 6, No 12, and No. 32 were selected as tôi có thể lẳng lặng vào phòng mà ông sounding natural by just above half of respondents in groups 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (see không hay biết. [He became so Table 2): No.3: “I make observations, you know” A. “Tôi quan sát, cậu biết đấy”. [I observe, you know”] B. “Tôi tiến hành quan sát, cậu biết đấy”. passionately that…] [“I make observations, you know”] In short, regarding the choice of the five groups of respondents as a whole, as can be No 6. Nothing of what he had done could make the slightest difference to me, … seen in Table 1 and Table 2, 20 out of 35 sentences with verbs in the TTs as translations A. Không có gì trong những hành động của of those with nouns in the STs were chosen as ông có thể gây ra sự khác biệt dù chỉ sounding more natural than the sentences with rất nhỏ trong tôi. nouns (designed by the researcher) by over 75%  [Nothing of what he had done could respondents in the five groups. 10 other make a difference, though very small, sentences with verbs in the TTs were selected in me.] as natural in Vietnamese language by 60% - 74% respondents, while the rest 5 sentences with verbs had the choice rate of between + noun in the English sentences while they read