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Yang, Bei – English Language Teaching, 2016
As an important yet intricate linguistic feature in English language, synonymy poses a great challenge for second language learners. Using the 100 million-word British National Corpus (BNC) as data and the software Sketch Engine (SkE) as an analyzing tool, this article compares the usage of "learn" and "acquire" used in natural…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Mukundan, Jayakaran; bin Saadullah, Khairil Anuar; binti Ismail, Razalina; binti Jusoh Zasenawi, Nur Hairunnisa – English Language Teaching, 2013
This research studied the use of modals in argumentative written tasks by Form 5 Malaysian secondary school ESL students. The aim of this study was to examine the use of English modals at the syntactic level from data presented in the MCSAW Corpus. The research design comprised a qualitative technique through discourse analysis aided by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Verbs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Khodadady, Ebrahim; Mehr, Somayeh Javadi – English Language Teaching, 2012
This paper reports a textual analysis of letters written by 21 male and 21 female participants in Persian. Each writer wrote two letters, one to a dating service and another one to a hypothetical person chosen and introduced by the center. Therefore, a total of 84 letters were collected from the participants. Schema theory was used to find the…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Letters (Correspondence), Dating (Social), Interpersonal Communication