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Boonnoon, Sichabhat – English Language Teaching, 2020
One sub-type of collocations which is under-researched is binomials. The purposes of this study were to investigate Thai EFL students' knowledge of English binomials, determine the syntactic structure of the internal elements of binomials reported as most or least known by them, and test if the students' knowledge of binomials was significantly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Knowledge Level, Second Language Learning
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Tahara, Nobuko – English Language Teaching, 2022
The present study attempts to identify difficulties that Japanese students encounter with metadiscursive nouns in writing second language (L2) argumentation essays. Metadiscursive nouns are abstract and unspecific nouns which can serve as cohesive markers by retrieving their meanings in the text where they occur. Using a selected number of nouns…
Descriptors: Nouns, Persuasive Discourse, Phrase Structure, Essays
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Lott, Bernard – English Language Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Language Patterns, Second Language Learning, Sentence Structure