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Xi Yu; Frank Boers – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
There are grounds for believing that prompting language learners to infer the meaning of new lexical items is beneficial because inferring the meaning of lexical items and verifying one's inferences invites more cognitive investment than simply being presented with the meanings. However, concerns have been raised over the risk that wrong…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Inferences
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Mohamad Javad Baghiat Esfahani; Saeed Ketabi – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study attempts to evaluate the effect of the corpus-based inductive teaching approach with multiple academic corpora (PICA, CAEC and Oxford Corpus of Academic English) and conventional deductive teaching approach (i.e., multiple-choice items, filling the gap, matching and underlining) on learning academic collocations by Iranian…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Advanced Students, English (Second Language)