This paper presents a systemic view of collocation in order to explore how scientists optimally select and present information in abstracts. In a previous large scale study of 150 research articles (Gledhill 1995), collocational analysis revealed the key role of idiom in defining a norm of scientific writing and in the progressive textual creation of ...
Christopher Gledhill
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Visualisation of long distance grammatical collocation patterns in language [PDF]
Research in generic unsupervised learning of language structure applied to the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and decipherment of unknown languages has sought to build up a generic picture of lexical and structural patterns, characteristic of natural language.
J. Elliott, E. Atwell, B. Whyte
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Translation Errors Among Bilingual Arabic Language Students: Collocations as an Example
The study of translation by bilingual female students studying Arabic had not received much attention, especially with regard to the cultural errors that these students made during English-Arabic translations, which resulted in them making mistakes in ...
Aliyu Ahmad +3 more
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The relationship between collocational knowledge, speaking proficiency, and the use of collocation in Iranian EFL learners' oral performance [PDF]
The ability to speak a foreign language requires more than a mere knowledge of its grammatical and semantic rules. Learners must acquire the knowledge of how native speakers use the language naturally by capitalizing on a wealth of prefabricated forms ...
Karim Sadeghi, Fatemeh Panahifar
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Grammatical Collocations and their Role in Language Development for Non-Native Arabic Speakers [PDF]
Mohamed Aziz Abdelmaksoud Sayed Ahmed +4 more
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Utilizing lexical data from a Web-derived corpus to expand productive collocation knowledge [PDF]
Collocations are of great importance for second language learners, and a learner’s knowledge of them plays a key role in producing language fluently (Nation, 2001: 323).
Franken, Margaret +2 more
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Refining the use of the web (and web search) as a language teaching and learning resource [PDF]
The web is a potentially useful corpus for language study because it provides examples of language that are contextualized and authentic, and is large and easily searchable.
Franken, Margaret +2 more
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Second language learning in the context of MOOCs [PDF]
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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Collocations and collocation types in ESP textbooks: Quantitative pedagogical analysis [PDF]
The term collocation, even though it is rather common in the English language grammar, it is not a well known or commonly used term in the textbooks and scientific papers written in the Serbian language.
Bogdanović Vesna Ž. +1 more
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Translating Law into a Dictionary. A Terminographic Model [PDF]
Firstly, the methodological approach which was adopted in order to create the model is delineated. It is based on the combined specialist knowledge of three disciplines, namely terminography, translation studies and law.
Szemińska, Weronika
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