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In reading research and pedagogy, it is important to understand the nuances of collocation competence in ESL learners’ reading comprehension of English-language learners, investigate the interrelationships, and evaluate the mutual effect.
Nahazatul Husin, Rafizah Rawian
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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English
Abstract Speech communities have the tendency to develop habits as to which words tend to co‐occur, in the form of coinages and collocational patterns, thus constituting an aspect conducive to the subtle emergence of language variation. As these co‐occurrence tendencies become lexicalised and confined to specific, rigid word combinations, new ...
Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, Hans‐Georg Wolf
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Towards a Reduction of Grammar Teaching a Lexical Analysis
Learning a language is essentially learning vocabulary, and it is the lexical competence that enables the learners to use the language with ease. It will be argued that such an ability includes, among the important ones, the knowledge of semantic ...
Priyono Priyono
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No wonder that knowledge of how words pair in L2 has been a missing part in many EFL classes and a peripheral element in many syllabi in Algeria. Virtually, many of the current teaching practices still seek to focus learners’ attention on the role of ...
Debabi Mohamed Debabi Mohamed
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Nigerian English: History, functions and features
Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi +1 more
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Error Analysis: a case study with intermediate learners of English [PDF]
Error Analysis emerged following the traces of Contrastive linguistics, which has been a recurrent approach for research on Second Language Learning in the last century.
Eskarza de Marcos, Arrate
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Characterising Sustainability Requirements: A New Species, Red Herring, or Just an Odd Fish? [PDF]
—Requirements articulating the needs of stakeholders are critical to successful system development and key to influ-encing their long-term effects. As the concept of sustainability has entered the discourse of a number of software-related computing ...
Becker, Christoph +7 more
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The purpose of this paper was to examine at shedding more light into the effectiveness of emotioncy on gender in assessing Persian EFL learners’ collocational competence.
Mustapha Hajebi, Sadegh Ghaffary
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Reputational Management in Advisory Agencies: The Case of the STOA Unit
ABSTRACT While research has examined how reputation shapes regulatory agencies' behavior, comparatively less attention has been paid to advisory bodies. Yet, these entities engage in forms of indirect regulation that illuminate key modalities of the EU regulatory state.
Valentina Amuso
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Collocations with High Frequency Verbs in Learner English: Lithuanian Learners vs Native Speakers
[full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] Analysis of learner language, or interlanguage, produced by learners of different mother tongues has many implications for the theory and practice of teaching/learning English as a foreign ...
Rita Juknevičienė
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