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Krummes, Cedric; Ensslin, Astrid – Language Learning Journal, 2015
Whereas there exists a plethora of research on collocations and formulaic language in English, this article contributes towards a somewhat less developed area: the understanding and teaching of formulaic language in German as a foreign language. It analyses formulaic sequences and collocations in German writing (corpus-driven) and provides modern…
Descriptors: German, Essays, Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure
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Macaro, Ernesto; Graham, Suzanne – Language Learning Journal, 2008
In this study we tracked the development of the "passe compose" in second-language learners of French whose first language is English. Although the "passe compose" is a highly used tense among native speakers of French and it appears to present particular difficulty for first-language English speakers, its second-language development has been…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, French, Native Speakers, English