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Using Corpora to Develop Learners' Collocational Competence
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Li, Shuangling – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
This article investigates the role of direct corpus use in learners' collocational competence in academic writing. An experiment was conducted between two groups of Chinese postgraduates who had no previous knowledge of corpora. It was embedded in a regular 4-month linguistics course in the students' programmes, where a corpus-assisted method was…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Computational Linguistics, Accuracy, Graduate Students