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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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Combining collocations, lexical and encyclopedic knowledge for metonymy resolution [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Volume 2 - EMNLP '09, 2009 This paper presents a supervised method for resolving metonymies. We enhance a commonly used feature set with features extracted based on collocation information from corpora, generalized using lexical and encyclopedic knowledge to determine the preferred sense of the potentially metonymic word using methods from unsupervised word sense disambiguation.
Vivi Nastase, Michael Strube 0001
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Writing is crucial in tertiary education, yet enhancing the complexity of academic writing presents significant challenges for second language (L2) learners. This study explores the potential of dialogue journal writing (DJW), an interactive and low‐stress classroom activity, to enhance writing complexity among novice L2 writers.
Barry Lee Reynolds +2 more
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Lexical Translation Loss in the Arabic Dubbed Versions of Some English Animated Films
Al-Mağallah Al-ʿilmiyyaẗ Li Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Asyūṭ, 2023 The main objective of this paper is to examine the lexical translation loss that occurs in the Arabic versions of some English animated films. It focuses on characterizing certain translational implications based on the lexical differences between the ...
Sarah Hassan Abdel-Shafik Hassan Gadalla
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Cumulative Testing for Learning Spoken Vocabulary
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Cumulative testing is known to improve vocabulary learning by integrating both new and previously introduced words in weekly quizzes. While evidence for its benefits is promising, prior research has primarily focused on the written mode of vocabulary, with target words studied, practiced, and tested in the visual mode only.
Ryo Maie, Takumi Uchihara
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Current trends encouraging a move away from monolingual teaching have sparked a renewed interest in the role of translation in language instruction. Yet, there are few theoretically and empirically grounded proposals regarding specific uses of translation in the language classroom.
Monika Bader +2 more
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COLLOCATION PHRASES IN RELATION TO OTHER LEXICAL PHRASES IN CROATIAN
Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2012 The paper analyzes the semantic and lexicological aspects of collocation phrases in Croatian with tendency to separate them from other lexical phrases in Croatian (terms, idioms, names).
Goranka Blagus Bartolec
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Slovene-English Contrastive Phraseology: Lexical Collocations
ELOPE, 2010 Phraseology is seen as one of the key elements and arguably the most productive part of any language. %e paper is focused on collocations and separates them from other phraseological units, such as idioms or compounds. Highlighting the difference between
Primož Jurko
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A Comparative Study of Discourse Comprehension of Lexical Relations between Normal and Educable Down syndrome Persian-Speaking Students [PDF]
Ravānshināsī-i Afrād-i Istis̠nāyī, 2018 Down syndrome (DS) disease is a genetic disorder which is caused by an additional copy of chromosome 21 in patient’s cell. These individuals face with different limitations in their social life such as disorders in discourse production and comprehension.
Abbas Ali Ahangar +3 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Repeated viewing is reportedly a common learning and pedagogical strategy among autonomous second language (L2) learners and language teachers. This experimental study examined the extent to which sequential captioning use facilitates the acquisition of multiword expressions (MWEs) through repeated viewing under incidental learning conditions.
Kenneth W. Y. Li, Yaxin Ni
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