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Syntactic and phraseological complexity in Chinese as a second language adapted teaching materials
The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 326-343, Summer 2025.Graphical abstract: Abstract The adjustment of syntactic and phraseological complexity is a key consideration in text adaptation. However, research on this topic in the context of Chinese as a second language (CSL) remains limited. Using 700 CSL reading texts graded following the newly issued Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International ...
Jifeng Wu +4 more
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Неофилология, 2020 We center on the study of the phraseological units semantics from cognitive positions. In particular, attention is paid to information about person physical characteristics represented by phraseological units of the English language containing somatisms,
E. V. Dolgova
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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 274-285, May/June 2025.Abstract Energy is a crosscutting concept in science, but college students often perceive a mismatch between how their biology and chemistry courses discuss the topic. The challenge of reconciling these disciplinary differences can promote faulty reasoning—for example, biology students often develop the incorrect idea that breaking bonds is exothermic ...
Mingyu Yang +3 more
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Opera slavica, 2013 The corpus of the present investigation includes 320 phraseological units in English and 520 phraseological units in Bulgarian all with an animal semantic base. It's possible for one and the same meaning to be expressed by different phraseological units.
Rajna Cholandi
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Drivers of differentiation between EU Member‐states in the UN General Assembly
European Journal of Political Research, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 834-850, May 2025.Abstract The European Union (EU) has laboured hard to gain the right to make oral interventions in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in pursuit of a more active international role. At the same time, though, EU member‐states continue to take the floor to make their own interventions, thus differentiating – but not necessarily distancing – their
SPYROS BLAVOUKOS, IOANNIS GALARIOTIS
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A Multiple‐Choice Exercise on Collocations: What Do Learners Actually Remember?
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 824-833, May 2025.ABSTRACT Contemporary materials for second language (L2) learning feature exercises on collocations (i.e., word partnerships such as catch fire), many of which require learners to select correct word combinations from two or more candidates. A few studies of the effectiveness of these selected‐response exercises, which are essentially multiple‐choice ...
Alyssa Mengxue Li, Frank Boers
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Phraseological units: persuasion and translation [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2009 This paper explores the persuasive power of phraseological units (PUs) in cosmetics leaflets written either in English or French, together with their translation into French or English, respectively, as well as into Spanish. The approach rests upon, firstly, the concept of genre, determined, in agreement with Swales (1990), on the basis of the purpose ...
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THE STRUCTURAL-SEMANTIC MODELS OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH THE COMPONENT “WATER” IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE [PDF]
Vestnik Issyk-Kulʹskogo universitetaThis article is dedicated to the analysis of the structural-semantic models of phraseological units with the component "water" in the Russian language.
Talantвek kyzy Sezim, Мukambetova А.
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VARIABILITY OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS
, 2022 This article discusses about the internal classification of variability of phraseological units that are considered lexical variation within them.
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Structural Description of Phraseological Units with Component ‘Animalʼ in English Language
Oriental Studies, 2018 Phraseological units with component “animal” are widely used in the English language. The image of animal helps to create the picture of moral qualities of a man. Zoosemiya of the English language is rich and varied.
Z. Chedzhieva
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