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Young Learners and Lexical Awareness: Children's Engagement with Wordlists and Concordances
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MacGregor, Alex – TESOL Journal, 2014
Sinclair (1991) found that lexical analysis can be overcomplicated, yet Johns (1994) called for investigation into whether corpus analysis can motivate beginners and near-beginners. The findings of this research suggest that young EFL learners can enjoy using corpus analysis tools (wordlists and concordances) to identify, classify, and generalize…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Student Motivation, Novices, Word Lists