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Direct linkXie, Ruibo; Fang, Yuanyuan; Wu, Xinchun; Nguyen, Thi Phuong – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Children's idiom comprehension is an important aspect of language development. Idioms have both literal and figurative meanings, and there are often great differences between literal meaning and figurative meaning, which brings great difficulties to children's accurate understanding of idioms. As a kind of underlying language ability,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Language Patterns
Download full textGray, Bethany; Geluso, Joe; Nguyen, Phuong – ETS Research Report Series, 2019
In the present study, we take a longitudinal, corpus-based perspective to investigate short-term (over 9 months) linguistic change in the language produced for the spoken and written sections of the "TOEFL iBT"® test by a group of English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners in China. The goal of the study is to identify patterns that…
Descriptors: Grammar, Computer Assisted Testing, Phrase Structure, Language Proficiency
