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A corpus-based analysis of textbooks used in the orientation course for immigrants in Germany: Ideological and pedagogic implications

open access: yesJournal of Language and Cultural Education, 2016
Contextualized within immigrants’ acquisition of specialized knowledge about the host country at the institutional level, this article examines a 64295-word corpus of textbooks written for participants of the orientation course in German politics ...
Leung Ray C. H.
doaj   +1 more source

Second language learning in the context of MOOCs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Massive Open Online Courses are becoming popular educational vehicles through which universities reach out to non-traditional audiences. Many enrolees hail from other countries and cultures, and struggle to cope with the English language in which these ...
Fitzgerald, Alannah   +2 more
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A Generalization Error Bound of Physics‐Informed Neural Networks for Ecological Diffusion Models

open access: yesStat, Volume 15, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Ecological diffusion equations (EDEs) are partial differential equations (PDEs) that model spatiotemporal dynamics, often applied to wildlife diseases. Derived from ecological mechanisms, EDEs are useful for forecasting, inference, and decision‐making, such as guiding surveillance strategies for wildlife diseases.
Juan Francisco Mandujano Reyes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collocational competence of primary and secondary school students

open access: yesExELL (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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Exploring the collocational competence of non-native users of medical English

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Bioethics, 2013
Previous research on collocations has emphasised the significance of collocations as co-occurrence and recurrence. Applied linguists exploring the acquisition of collocations made a significant contribution to the understanding of the notion of ...
ViÅ¡nja Pavičić Takač   +1 more
doaj  

Construções binominais quantitativas em perspectiva distintiva: uma análise colostrucional

open access: yesRevista Odisséia, 2019
This paper investigates quantifying binomial constructions from a usage-based constructionist perspective. For this purpose, it develops, on the data used for the investigation, a distinctive collexeme analysis, a type of measure of association between ...
Karen Sampaio Braga Alonso   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Translating near-synonyms: Possibilities and preferences in the interlingua

open access: yes, 1998
This paper argues that an interlingual representation must explicitly represent some parts of the meaning of a situation as possibilities (or preferences), not as necessary or definite components of meaning (or constraints).
Edmonds, Philip
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V+N miscollocations in the written production of university level students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The study of collocation – the restricted way in which two or more words combine across texts – has recently gained much relevance. The acquisition of these combinations has proved an important obstacle for non-native speakers of a foreign language as ...
Zinkgräf, Magdalena
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Collocation Dictionaries: A Comparative Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The importance of phraseological information in lexicographic resources is experiencing an exponential growth. This is evident in the publication in recent years of a wide variety of combinatorial or collocation dictionaries.
Buendía Castro, Miriam, Faber, Pamela
core   +3 more sources

Native and Nonnative Speakers’ Preferences for Preposition Pied‐Piping Versus Stranding in English Wh‐Relative Clauses

open access: yesLanguage Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 103-131, March 2026.
Abstract The current study investigated from a usage‐based perspective how phrasal frequency and collocational strength of verb–preposition collocations influence preposition placement in wh‐relative clauses. Native English speakers and Chinese learners of English as a second language of the intermediate and advanced English proficiencies completed a ...
Henan Duan (she/her)   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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