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Direct linkYamada, Kyoko – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2005
Hoey (1991) claims that lexical patterns, which are a network of repetitious and synonymous words of a text, can be identified even by elementary foreign language readers. The present study investigates whether intermediate Japanese EFL readers can actually find elements of lexical patterns of a text Hoey uses in his book to demonstrate the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Patterns
