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A WordNet-Based Near-Synonyms and Similar-Looking Word Learning System
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Sun, Koun-Tem; Huang, Yueh-Min; Liu, Ming-Chi – Educational Technology & Society, 2011
Near-Synonyms and Similar-Looking (NSSL) words can create confusion for English as Foreign Language Learners as a result of a type of lexical error that often occurs when they confuse similar-looking words that are near synonyms to have the same meaning. Particularly, this may occur if the similar-looking words have the same translated meaning.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software