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Kai Bao; Meihua Liu – SAGE Open, 2024
This study compared the five-word lexical bundles (LBs) expressing gratitude in acknowledgments of dissertations written by Chinese and American PhD students of linguistics. Two corpora were built: (1) The Chinese University Dissertation Acknowledgments Collection (CUC) which contained 700 acknowledgments with a total of 300,686 tokens, and (2)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Dissertations, Linguistics, Language Usage
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Li, Lexi Xiaoduo – SAGE Open, 2022
This study demonstrates how native and learner corpora can enhance modal verb treatment in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) textbooks used in mainland China. Data analysis compares modal verbs in the textbook and native corpus by referring to distributional features, semantic functions and co-occurring constructions; and the analysis of the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Shirazi, Masoumeh A.; Mousavi Nadoushani, Seyed Mohammad – SAGE Open, 2017
This study is an endeavor to find how English native and nonnative EFL/ESL (English as foreign language/English as second language) writers use adversative conjunctions to connect ideas together so that texts have both coherence and cohesion. Regarding the problems nonnative writers of EFL face when composing a piece of writing, we attempted a…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Research Reports, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning