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Direct linkWu, Yi-ju – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
Adopting the approaches of "pattern hunting" and "pattern refining" (Kennedy & Miceli, 2001, 2010, 2017), this study investigates how seven freshman English students from Taiwan used the Corpus of Contemporary American English to discover collocation patterns for 30 near-synonymous change-of-state verbs and new ideas about…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Download full textEslamirasekh, Zohreh – 1993
This study compared patterns in the requests of native Persian-speakers (n=50) and native speakers of American English (n=52) under the same social constraints. Students were undergraduate students in their native countries. Data were gathered by controlled elicitation (open questionnaire) and coded for degree of directness. Results show the…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies
Nakajima, Yuko – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1997
A study investigated which experiences helped Japanese learners of English as a second language acquire native-like politeness strategies and how Japanese businessmen perceive the relationship between degrees of indirectness and politeness in Japanese and in English. Subjects were 22 adult males, including 17 native speakers of Japanese working…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness
