THE REALIZATION OF COLLOCATION IN EFL STUDENTS’ WRITTEN TEXTS ACROSS THREE PROFICIENCY LEVELS [PDF]
This research investigated the realization of collocation in two respects: how collocation was formed appropriately and inappropriately in written texts. Following Benson et al.
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Collocations have long been recorded by lexicographers but the theorization of thiskind of phraseological unit is quite recent. In line with the lexicological “continental”tradition of collocation, we propose a set of semantic and syntactic criteria to delimit clearly this phenomenon.
Tutin, Agnès, Kraif, Olivier
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The Use of Grammatical Collocations by Advanced Saudi EFL Learners in the UK and KSA
This study attempts to investigate the production of English grammatical collocations amongst Saudi students majoring in English in the KSA and those in the UK. It also shows the most frequent types of errors that may occur as well as some possible reasons for their occurrence.
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ABSTRACT This paper proposes Virtual Reality (VR) and 360 film as promising fieldwork tools for addressing problematic temporalities in ethnographic museums and for collaborating with communities of origin. Focusing on the Maria Czaplicka Siberian collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, we examine how previous methods of display marginalized the
Anya Gleizer +2 more
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A Mixed-Methods Investigation of the Effectiveness and Perceptions of Learning English Collocations Using the Keyword Method and the Rote Learning Method. [PDF]
Zhang X, Reynolds BL.
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Nigerian English research: Developments and directions
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
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The lexical processing of Japanese collocations by Chinese Japanese-as-a-Foreign-Language learners: An experimental study by manipulating the presentation modality, semantic transparency, and translational congruency. [PDF]
Song Q, Fei X, Matsumi N.
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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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Exploratory Practice: Researching the Impact of Songs on EFL Learners' Verbal Memory [PDF]
Traditionally popular songs have been used as a way of enhancing listening and auditory perception skills and teaching vocabulary, but not necessarily for memory recall.
Coleman, Rebecca
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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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