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Different Approaches to the Concept of Collocation in English: Why Learn Collocations?
Baltic Journal of Sport and Health Sciences, 2018 Research background. A collocation is a combination of two or more words that are commonly used together in English. Collocation is an indispensable element of any English text and no piece of natural spoken or written language is totally free of ...
Lina Danilevičienė, Roma Vaznonienė
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Testing Collocational Competence of Business English Students [PDF]
Global scholastic research journal of multidisciplinary, 2015 The importance of collocations has been emphasised in the last few decades. However, most studies have dealt with collocations in general English and that is why this study emphasises collocations in business English. The emphasis is on upward collocations, that is, verb plus noun and adjective plus noun combinations.
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Metaphor, the dictionary, and the advanced learner [PDF]
, 2006 Research into figurative language in foreign language acquisition has primarily focused on the receptive skills, where there is strong evidence to suggest that encouraging students to reflect on the metaphorical origins of figurative expressions makes ...
PHILIP, GILLIAN SUSAN
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International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2021 Although corpora and corpus linguistics have been applied for quite long in foreign and second language settings, there is still limited understanding about how EFL learners use corpus tools along with dictionaries to enhance their collocation knowledge.
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To Collocate or not to Collocate: Exploring Verb-Noun Collocations of Turkish EFL Learners
SAGE OpenA growing body of learner corpus research underscores the pivotal role of collocational competence in achieving advanced L2 proficiency. Verb–noun collocations have been identified as particularly challenging for L2 learners, largely due to their ...
Sibel Aybek
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Collocational competence of primary and secondary school students
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)The aim of the paper is to test collocational competence of primary and secondary school students to establish the most frequent problems they encounter. Based on these collocational errors teachers could devise their teaching material and help students
Evelina Miščin
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The Role of Computer Mediation in the Instruction and Development of L2 Pragmatic Competence [PDF]
, 2007 This article submitted to IUPUI ScholarWorks as part of the OASIS Project. Article reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Belz, Julie A. (Julie Anne)
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Partial Perception and Approximate Understanding [PDF]
, 2017 What is discussed in the present paper is the assumption concerning a human narrowed sense of perception of external world and, resulting from this, a basically approximate nature of concepts that are to portray it.
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Effects of L1-L2 congruency, collocation type, and restriction on processing L2 collocations. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Jiang Y.
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High-frequency collocations of nouns in research articles across eight disciplines [PDF]
, 2012 This paper describes a corpus-based analysis of the distribution of the high-frequency collocates of abstract nouns in 320 research articles across eight disciplines: Chemistry, Computer Science, Materials Science, Neuroscience, Economics, Language and ...
Matthew Peacock
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