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English collocations: A novel approach to teaching the language's last bastion
Collocations are a class of idiomatic expressions comprised of a sequence of words which, for mostly arbitrary reasons, occur together in a prescribed order.
Rafe S. Zaabalawi, Anthony M. Gould
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The mapping of Indonesian collocations: A contrastive analysis with English collocations
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in research on English collocations, yet studies focusing on Indonesian collocations remain underexplored.
Sri Dewiyanti +3 more
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Defining collocation for Slovenian lexical resources
In this paper, we define the notion of collocation for the purpose of its use in machine-readable language resources, which will be used in the creation of electronic dictionaries and language applications for Slovene.
Iztok Kosem, Simon Krek, Polona Gantar
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This study aims to: (1) find out whether collocation improves students' vocabulary competence (2) find the type of collocation that is most developed in students' vocabulary competence. This research combined qualitative data and quantitative data, where quantitative data was used to support qualitative data.
Edi Suprayetno +3 more
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Metapragmatic Evaluation of Verbal Irony by Speakers of Russian and American English [PDF]
The paper discusses metapragmatic assessment of verbal irony by speakers of Russian and American English. The research combines ideas from metapragmatics, folk linguistics and corpus linguistics. Empirical data are drawn from the Russian National Corpus (
Shilikhina, Ksenia
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Idiomatic expressions in Florian Czarnyszewicz’s novels as a linguistic evidence of mutual relations of the Polish community by the Berezina river at the beginning of the 20th century This article is an attempt at analysing collocations chosen from ...
Małgorzata Ostrówka
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Supporting collocation learning with a digital library [PDF]
Extensive knowledge of collocations is a key factor that distinguishes learners from fluent native speakers. Such knowledge is difficult to acquire simply because there is so much of it.
Franken, Margaret +2 more
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Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Linguocultural Peculiarities of German and Georgian Phraseological Units – Contrastive Analysis [PDF]
Knowledge about the world begins with gaining knowledge about the language. Language is a part of our national culture and plays one of the main roles in its formation.
Abuseridze, A. (Anzor) +1 more
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Teaching Through Trauma: English Teachers Navigating Affective Regimes in Post‐Earthquake Türkiye
Abstract This study explores how English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in post‐earthquake Türkiye narrated their experiences of loss, survival, and teaching within state‐imposed affective regimes. Drawing on an affective–discursive analysis of Ministry of National Education (MoNE) documents and media texts, the study first investigates how ...
Merve Özçelik
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