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Second language learning in the context of MOOCs [PDF]
, 2014 Massive Open Online Courses are becoming popular educational vehicles through which universities reach out to non-traditional audiences. Many enrolees hail from other countries and cultures, and struggle to cope with the English language in which these ...
Fitzgerald, Alannah +2 more
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Repères, 2020 How do foreign/second language learners retain new lexical items? In this study, we examined the effect of vocabulary exercises on advanced French students’ learning of new second language collocations.
Alexandra Tsedryk
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Languages, 2023 Collocations are one of the most studied types of word combinations. Their intricate nature, based on varying degrees of restriction, begs the question as to how modifications in their typical form influence the way they are processed by native speakers ...
Irene Fioravanti +5 more
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Refining the use of the web (and web search) as a language teaching and learning resource [PDF]
, 2009 The web is a potentially useful corpus for language study because it provides examples of language that are contextualized and authentic, and is large and easily searchable.
Franken, Margaret +2 more
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Translation Transformations of Lexical Collocations
Studies About Languages, 2012 Translation involves taking various aspects into consideration in different languages, and thus, a common problem for a translator is to find corresponding expressions in the target language (TL). Collocation in its linguistic sense is a relatively new phenomenon and its definition is not fully agreed on.
Jolita Horbacauskiene, Saule Petroniene
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Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary [PDF]
, 1994 We describe a method of using statistically-collected Chinese character groups from a corpus to augment a Chinese dictionary. The method is particularly useful for extracting domain-specific and regional words not readily available in machine-readable ...
Fung, Pascale, Wu, Dekai
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Frontiers in Education, 2022 Corpus studies have highlighted the role of multiword units in naturally occurring language. Speech theories, too, have underlined the linkage between such formulaic sequences- collocations in particular- and speech production. Few studies, however, have
Masoomeh Estaji, Mohammad Reza Montazeri
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Lexical and Grammatical Collocations in Writing Production of EFL Learners [PDF]
Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2012 Lewis (1993) recognized significance of word combinations including collocations by presenting lexical approach. Because of the crucial role of collocation in vocabulary acquisition, this research set out to evaluate the rate of collocations in Iranian ...
Maryam Bahardoust, Mohammad Raouf Moeine
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The role of collocations in the formation of the lexical speech skills
Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2019 The main goal of teaching foreign language is the formation of foreign language communicative competence which implies the development of speech skills.
I. N. Aksenova
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The Use of Lexical Cohesion Elements in the Writing of ESL Learners [PDF]
, 2016 This study investigated the use of lexical elements of cohesion in the essay writing of students of English as a Second Language. Two hundred essays of final year students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka were collated and analyzed by the researchers
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