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Loke, Darina Lokeman; Ali, Juliana; Anthony, Norin Norain Zulkifli – English Language Teaching, 2013
This article presents a corpus-based investigation on English prepositions of time presented in the argumentative essays of Form 4 and Form 5 Malaysian secondary students in the MCSAW corpus. The aims were to find out the distribution patterns and the common errors in the use of preposition of time, "on" and "at". This corpus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
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Dastjerdi, Hossein Vahid; A'lipour, Javad – English Language Teaching, 2010
A great deal of attention has been paid to the role of idiomatic language in learning a second language. It has been recently recognized by some second language researchers (e.g. Danesi, 2003) that second language speakers may sound unnatural if their speech is devoid of idiomatic language. This article is an attempt to see how the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns, Language Acquisition