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A linguistically-driven methodology for detecting impending and unfolding emergencies from social media messages [PDF]

, 2016
Natural disasters have demonstrated the crucial role of social media before, during and after emergencies (Haddow & Haddow 2013). Within our EU project Sland \ub4 ail, we aim to ethically improve \ub4 the use of social media in enhancing the response of ...
Musacchio, MARIA TERESA, Panizzon, Raffaella, Zhang, X., Zorzi, Virginia   +3 more
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Young EFL Learners’ Incidental Collocation Learning Through Different Multimodal Inputs: A Mixed‐Methods Study

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how multimodal input modes affect young EFL learners’ incidental collocation learning performance and experience. A total of 97 EFL learners (aged 12–13) in a Chinese secondary school were randomly assigned to two multimodal groups (reading‐while‐listening and viewing‐with‐captions) and a reading‐only group (as a control ...
Pu Pu, Daniel Yu‐Sheng Chang, Shuang Wang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Words Used in The Classroom. A Contrastive Lexical Analysis of Two Instances of Oral Discourse

Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2014
The paper looks at the oral exchanges between two teachers and their B2-C1 level students (Common European Framework of Reference) in a particular EFL classroom, from the perspective of the Cambridge examinations assessment standard for the category of ...
Mureşan Valentina Carina
doaj   +1 more source

Occasional Collocations in Poetry of P. B. Shelley and Their Typology

Научный диалог, 2017
The article is devoted to the functional-semantic analysis of occasional collocations in the poetry of P. B. Shelley. Occasional collocation refers to a special type of lexical units - individual author’s combinations of words, in which, as a rule, the ...
A. V. Korshunova
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“Do I speak better?” A longitudinal study of lexical chunking in the spoken language of two Japanese students [PDF]

, 2006
The prominence of lexical chunks or prefabricated language has grown over recent years, however there have been few longitudinal case studies exploring changes in non-native speaker (NNS) speech and little work done involving NNSs in identifying chunks ...
Leedham, Maria
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Social and Social‐Psychological Factors Do Not Predict L2 Writing: The Case of Immigrants in the Netherlands

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is well‐known that adults vary to an important extent with regard to L2 learning outcomes. One apparent reason is the degree of exposure to the target language. Furthermore, it has been suggested that adult learning is more affected by social and psychological variables than in younger learners.
Marco Bril, Jolijn Pauw, Fanny Forsberg Lundell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From corpus-based collocation frequencies to readability measure [PDF]

, 2006
This paper provides a broad overview of three separate but related areas of research. Firstly, corpus linguistics is a growing discipline that applies analytical results from large language corpora to a wide variety of problems in linguistics and related
Anagnostou, N.K., Weir, G.R.S.
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Linguistic Analyses of Written Corrective Feedback for Chinese as a Second Language: ChatGPT Versus Human Teachers

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study conducted linguistic analyses of the written corrective feedback (WCF) for Chinese as a second language (CSL) provided by chat generative pre‐trained transformer (ChatGPT) and human teachers (including preservice teachers and senior teachers).
Ling Zhang, Jingjing XU, Hoang Anh Nguyen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lexico-Semantic Relations Errors in Senior Secondary School Students' Writing

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2001
The study examines the lexico-semantic relation errors in ESL writing. The data was taken from 200 SSS students' letter texts in 10 secondary schools randomly selected from two states in the South-Western Nigeria, the lexico-semantic errors were traced ...
Rotimi Taiwo
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Learner‐Focused Strategy Instruction From the Teachers’ and the Learners’ Perspective

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Numerous large‐scale quantitative studies have been conducted to yield a macro‐level picture of the effectiveness of strategy instruction. However, little is understood about learners' actual processing of strategy instruction and interaction with the teachers delivering it.
Isobel Kai‐Hui Wang, Andrew D. Cohen
wiley   +1 more source