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Contextualizing EFL Learners’ Proficiency in Using English Collocations
JEELS (Journal of English Education and Linguistics Studies), 2023 Proficiency in using a foreign language cannot be separated from mastery of collocation in the target language. Although several previous studies have explored collocations in various forms of oral communication; however, few studies have investigated ...
Rohdearni Wati Sipayung +1 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Grounded in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework, I examined sustainability discourse in the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) Hansards. Using LancsBox X, I employed collocational and concordance analyses to investigate a 15.7‐million‐word Hansard corpus.
Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu
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LEXICAL COLLOCATIONAL ERRORS MADE BY EFL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
گۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆThis research paper addresses various lexical collocational errors made by EFL private school students, aiming to investigate their writings (essays and paragraphs) through detailed analysis.
Rezheen Ahmed, Fakhir Mohammed
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Different Approaches to the Concept of Collocation in English: Why Learn Collocations?
Baltic Journal of Sport and Health Sciences, 2018 Research background. A collocation is a combination of two or more words that are commonly used together in English. Collocation is an indispensable element of any English text and no piece of natural spoken or written language is totally free of ...
Lina Danilevičienė, Roma Vaznonienė
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Mixed feelings, mixed outcomes? When emotionally ambivalent framing enhances idea appreciation
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Despite growing interest in how linguistic strategies shape audience responses to innovative ideas, prior evidence on the benefits of using emotional language remains mixed. Building on research on emotional ambivalence and social evaluation, we introduce the concept of emotionally ambivalent framing (i.e., the combination of ...
Donato Cutolo +2 more
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Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2022 Building on previous studies investigating the multidimensional nature of lexical use in task-based L2 performance, this study clarified the roles that the distinct lexical features play in predicting vocabulary proficiency in a corpus of L2 Oral ...
Masaki Eguchi
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Analysis of Collocational Errors in Selected Iraqi Published Papers
آداب الكوفة, 2017 The present study attempts to identify and analyse the collocational errors committed in writing by Iraqi EFL researchers whose major is English. The corpus involves (10 ) papers chosen randomly from various Iraqi universities.
Hussein Dhahi al-Hassnawi
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This classroom study explored the effects of vocabulary support on collocation learning and affective responses in task‐based language teaching (TBLT) among English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) learners at a Japanese university. For this purpose, 68 EFL learners completed two interactive information‐gap tasks under either vocabulary‐support or ...
Yuichi Suzuki, Sachiko Nakamura
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LEXICAL ANALYSIS OF THE VERB COOK AND LEARNING VOCABULARY: A CORPUS STUDY
TEFLIN Journal, 2011 English verbs have built-in properties that determine how they behave syntactically and generate appropriate meaning associated. With these inherent properties some verbs can fill in only in certain syntactic structures and some in others.
Priyono Priyono
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Lexical Synaesthesia in Metaphorical Collocations
Journal for Foreign LanguagesThis study seeks to shed more light on the role of lexical synaesthesia (LS), a phenomenon exemplified by expressing one sense in terms of another (e.g., gustation for sound – a sweet melody), in the process of forming metaphorical collocations. Lexical synaesthesia is a fascinating intersection of sensory perception and linguistic expression, the ...
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