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Direct linkWu, Shaoqun; Fitzgerald, Alannah; Yu, Alex; Witten, Ian – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
Learning collocations is one of the most challenging aspects of language learning as there are literally hundreds of thousands of possibilities for combining words. Corpus consultation with concordancers has been recognized in the literature as an established way for language learners to study and explore collocations at their own pace and in…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Computational Linguistics, Indexes, English (Second Language)
Download full textYang, Bei – English Language Teaching, 2016
As an important yet intricate linguistic feature in English language, synonymy poses a great challenge for second language learners. Using the 100 million-word British National Corpus (BNC) as data and the software Sketch Engine (SkE) as an analyzing tool, this article compares the usage of "learn" and "acquire" used in natural…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Mao, Zhicheng; Jiang, Lin – English Language Teaching, 2017
This paper aims to investigate the effects of the alignment entailed in the continuation task on syntactic complexity in L2 written production. A total number of 48 sophomores majoring in English at a university in China were randomly assigned to two groups, one is the continuation group and the other is the topic writing group. The current study…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Daskalovska, Nina – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
One of the aspects of knowing a word is the knowledge of which words it is usually used with. Since knowledge of collocations is essential for appropriate and fluent use of language, learning collocations should have a central place in the study of vocabulary. There are different opinions about the best ways of learning collocations. This study…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)
Sánchez Ramos, María Del Mar; Vigier Moreno, Francisco J. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
As stated by Valero-Garcés (2006, p. 38), the new scenario including public service providers and users who are not fluent in the language used by the former has opened up new ways of linguistic and cultural mediation in current multicultural and multilingual societies. As a consequence, there is an ever increasing need for translators and…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Public Service, Second Language Learning, Court Litigation
Lai, Shu-Li; Chen, Hao-Jan Howard – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
A number of studies have suggested the possible benefits of using concordancers in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing. To date, however, there is still limited understanding of how EFL writers may make use of such tools along with dictionaries when engaging in a writing task. To better understand the question, this study investigated a…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Indexes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
