Intermediate English as a Foreign Language learners’ formulaic language speaking proficiency: Where does the teaching of lexical chunks figure? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This research aims to investigate the impact of learning lexical chunks on the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Saudi learners’ (aged 13 to 17) speaking fluency. The study uses an intervention with intermediate Saudi learners comprising lexical chunks
Hani Hamad M. Albelihi
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Can chunk size differences explain developmental changes in lexical learning? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 In three experiments, we investigated Hebb repetition learning (HRL) differences between children and adults, as a function of the type of item (lexical vs. sub-lexical) and the level of item-overlap between sequences. In a first experiment, it was shown
Eleonore H.M. Smalle +6 more
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Corrigendum: Intermediate English as a Foreign Language learners' formulaic language speaking proficiency: Where does the teaching of lexical chunks figure? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Hani Hamad M. Albelihi
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An Analysis of the Multiword Units Presented in IELTS Speaking Preparation Books Published by Iranian Authors [PDF]
Applied Research on English Language, 2021 This study compared the use of lexical bundles in authentic spoken language data with those of two English learning textbooks developed for IELTS preparation courses in Iran.
Mansoor Ganji, Peyman Nasrabady
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HOW, 2021 This study investigated the effects of teaching vocabulary through the lexical instructional approach in EFL intermediate level students. Ninety-five (95) students participated in a non-equivalent pre-test-post-test quasi-experimental design study.
Addisu Sewbihon-Getie
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Lexical Bundles in the Abstract and Conclusion Sections: The Case of Applied Linguistics and Information Technology [PDF]
Applied Research on English Language, 2021 The study of lexical bundles, known as fixed phrases, chunks, clusters and multi-word expressions, has attracted considerable attention. While there has been much research on lexical bundles across different registers and a number of disciplines, their ...
Nahid Shahmoradi +2 more
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IMPLEMENTING THE LEXICAL APPROACH IN AN INTEGRATED ENGLISH E-COURSE [PDF]
Istraživanja u Pedagogiji, 2022 The purpose of this work is to observe and analyze if a group of thirty students of an integrated English e-course could benefit from the explicit teaching of five lexical groups and the pedagogical principles behind the Lexical Approach.
César Alberto Navas Brenes
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Using data-driven learning activities to improve lexical awareness in intermediate EFL learners
Cogent Education, 2021 A large number of empirical studies have demonstrated the impact of lexical chunks on foreign language learning. However, reliable and efficient use of the lexical approach remains a problem.
Liya Xue
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Chinese text chunking using lexicalized HMMs [PDF]
2005 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2005 This paper presents a lexicalized HMM-based approach to Chinese text chunking. To tackle the problem of unknown words, we formalize Chinese text chunking as a tagging task on a sequence of known words. To do this, we employ the uniformly lexicalized HMMs and develop a lattice-based tagger to assign each known word a proper hybrid tag, which involves ...
null Guo-Hong Fu +3 more
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Delta-band neural activity primarily tracks sentences instead of semantic properties of words
NeuroImage, 2022 Human language is generally combinatorial: Words are combined into sentences to flexibly convey meaning. How the brain represents sentences, however, remains debated.
Yuhan Lu +3 more
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