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Lee, Jinkyong – English Language Teaching, 2015
The current study aims to examine the use of chunks and the extent of repetition in Korean middle school English textbooks. Also, the number of chunks shared by three publishers is examined. To create the corpora, 9 textbooks from three publishers were filed and processed by Simple Concordance Program. The results showed that chunk expressions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Family, Neiloufar; Durus, Natalia; Ziegler, Gudrun – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2015
In this study, we present and analyze co-constructions from L2 English data collected at the European School in Luxembourg. Co-constructions are morpho-syntactic structures split across two speakers, in which a second speaker completes a grammatical structure initiated by the first speaker in conversation. The corpus features multilingual 13-14…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Grammar
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Whittaker, Rachel; Llinares, Ana; McCabe, Anne – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This article presents a study of written development in English as a foreign language produced in a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) environment. The texts analysed, from history classes, were collected annually over the four-year obligatory junior secondary education program from the same students (aged 12 to 16), in two state…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, State Schools, Nouns, Foreign Countries