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Download full textLu, Cailing; Boers, Frank; Coxhead, Averil – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This study explores English for specific purposes learners' understanding of technical words in a previously-developed technical word list in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The principal aim was to estimate what kind of technical terms pose problems to TCM learners and might therefore merit special attention in instruction. Of particular…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Hoang, Hien; Boers, Frank – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
Adult second language (L2) learners have often been found to produce discourse that manifests limited and non-native-like use of multiword expressions. One explanation for this is that adult L2 learners are relatively unsuccessful (in the absence of pedagogic intervention) at transferring multiword expressions from input texts to their own output…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
