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Wang, Jiayi; Halenko, Nicola – Language Learning Journal, 2022
This study investigates the immediate and sustained effects of a pre-departure study abroad training on the oral production of L2 Chinese formulaic language across a range of social and transactional interactions. Eighteen upper-intermediate learners of Chinese were assigned to either an instructed or non-instructed group to determine the efficacy…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Intervention, Comparative Analysis, Study Abroad
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Çandarli, Duygu – Language Learning Journal, 2020
Metalinguistic knowledge is regarded as an important factor in the development of writing. However, little attention has been paid to the metalinguistic knowledge of L2 writers in non-anglophone contexts. This study investigates L1-Turkish-speaking, first-year university students' metalinguistic knowledge of the lexical phrases they use in their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metalinguistics, Phrase Structure
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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