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EFL Learners’ Receptive Vocabulary Size and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Estimates Across Levels

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR) is widely used as a reference for language teaching and learning. However, providing vocabulary size (VS) estimates is beyond the CEFR's original aim. Previous research has also shown that learners’ receptive VS is related to overall proficiency and to the four language skills ...
Ferran Gesa
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The Role of Teaching Lexical Collocations in Raising EFL Learners’ Speaking Fluency [PDF]

, 2018
Collocations and its relations to learning English language have attracted the attention of linguists and scholars so far. This paper investigates the importance of teaching lexical collocations to improve EFL learners’ oral fluency.
Qader, Daban Saber
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Historical case study of a transfer experiment that demonstrated the importance of the estuarine ecosystem for the survival of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) at the Campbell River estuary, British Columbia, Canada

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Estuary dependence to the survival of Chinook salmon was investigated at the Campbell River estuary, British Columbia, Canada. Replicate batches of marked smolts were transferred from a hatchery and released in 1983, 1984 and 1985 at four ecosystems, two that ensured estuarine experience (river, estuary) and two seawards of the estuary ...
Colin D. Levings, J. Steve Macdonald
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Terminological Collocation as Object under Study

Научный диалог, 2019
The article is devoted to terminological collocations as one of the types of stable word combinations. The main approaches to defining terminological (specialized) collocations based on the works of a number of domestic and foreign authors are considered.
I. O. Onal
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Disguising the Familiar: Considering Internal Confidentiality in Individual Interviews With Partners and Families

Journal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article draws attention to the ethical and methodological complexities of internal confidentiality in family research and provides field‐specific recommendations. Conducting individual (rather than joint) interviews with partners or multiple members of the same family is common but poses significant challenges around internal ...
Susie Bower‐Brown, Clare Stovell
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The Effects of Feedback Types on Learners’ Recognition of Lexical Collocations [PDF]

, 2016
This study investigated the effects of three types of feedback on Iranian EFL learners’ recognition of lexical collocations. 78 pre-intermediate students from among 90 were selected to participate in this study. A KET (Key English Test) was used in order
Zarei, Abbas Ali, Mousavi, Maryam
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(De)Legitimizing Language Policing: Enregisterment and Linguistic Authority in Taiwan's Digital Public

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how ordinary Taiwanese netizens perform linguistic authority by policing others’ use of Mainland Chinese expressions in everyday online interactions not originally intended to be political and how such policing is subsequently supported, resisted, or (de)legitimized in the context of Taiwan–China relations. Three orders
Hsi‐Yao Su
wiley   +1 more source

Models of terminological collocations in medical English discourse

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem
Background. The term "collocation" has recently come into use and become popular in modern linguistics, denoting the phenomenon that exists in all languages.
Oksana O. Lyamova
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Code and Creed: The Construction of AI‐Islamic Discourse in Singapore's Media Landscape

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Singapore's mainstream media shapes public understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in Islamic contexts through analysis of newspaper coverage from 1989 to 2024. Drawing on computational analysis of over 620,000 articles from The Straits Times and The Business Times, we develop the concept of “double mediation” to ...
Reza Shaker
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What Is the Ideal Time to Provide Corrective Feedback? An Approximate Replication of Li, Zhu, and Ellis (2016)

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This replication study examines feedback timing in vocational language learners and verifies the hypothesis that the advantage of immediate over delayed feedback found in the original study (Li, Zhu, & Ellis, 2016) is due to practice opportunities in immediate feedback.
Shaofeng Li, Jie Li, Jiancheng Qian
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