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Yan Li; Hong Lei – SAGE Open, 2025
As a key component of fluent linguistic production, multi-word sequences called lexical bundles are considered an important distinguishing feature of discourse in different registers, genres, and disciplines. They are also an important aspect of empirically correct and proficient language use in a corpus of natural language because they enable…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Chang, Sau Hou – Online Submission, 2017
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of test trial and processing level on immediate and delayed retention. A 2 × 2 × 2 mixed ANOVAs was used with two between-subject factors of test trial (single test, repeated test) and processing level (shallow, deep), and one within-subject factor of final recall (immediate,…
Descriptors: College Students, Retention (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Correlation
Chang, Sau Hou – Online Submission, 2013
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of test trial and processing level on immediate and delayed retention. Seventy-six college students were randomly assigned first to the single test and the repeated test trials, and then to the shallow processing level and the deep processing level to study forty stimulus words.…
Descriptors: College Students, Retention (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Correlation
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Xia, Tian; Shumin, Zhang; Yifeng, Wu – Chinese Education & Society, 2016
We utilized cross tabulation statistics, word frequency counts, and content analysis of research output to conduct a bibliometric study, and used CiteSpace software to depict a knowledge map for research on entrepreneurship education in China from 2004 to 2013. The study shows that, in this duration, the study of Chinese entrepreneurship education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, Educational Research
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Hsu, Wenhua – Language Teaching Research, 2013
This study created a medical word list (MWL) to bridge the gap between non-technical and technical vocabulary. The researcher compiled a corpus containing 155 textbooks across 31 medical subject areas from e-book databases (totaling 15 million running words) and examined the range and frequency of words outside the most frequent 3,000-word…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Medical Education
Fan, Hui-Mei – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present study is based on the theoretical assumptions that frequency of characters and their structural components, as well as the frequency types of structural components, are important to enable learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) to discover the underlying structure of Chinese characters. In the CFL context, since reliable…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Phonetics, Semantics, Vocabulary