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Pablo Robles-García; Stuart McLean; Jeffrey Stewart; Ji-young Shin; Claudia Helena Sánchez-Gutiérrez – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
Recent literature in the field of L2 vocabulary assessment has advocated for the development of written receptive vocabulary tests such as Vocabulary Levels Tests (VLTs) that use: (a) meaning-recall item formats, (b) a minimum of 40 item counts per 1,000-frequency band to improve level estimates, and (c) lemmas (not word-families) as the lexical…
Descriptors: Spanish, Test Validity, Test Construction, Vocabulary Development
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James Rogers – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2020
This study outlines the steps taken to create an academic multi-word unit list derived from corpus data. It gives details on the procedure used and the rationale behind why certain approaches were utilised. It also compares existing resources and makes some suggestions for practical use of the resulting resource.
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure
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Jiang, Michael Yi-chao; Jong, Morris Siu-yung; Tse, Chi-shing; Chai, Ching-sing – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
This study examines whether semantic relatedness facilitates or impedes the acquisition of English collocations by conducting two experiments respectively on Chinese undergraduates. Each experiment was composed of a reading session, a productive test, and a receptive test. Experiment 1 began with the reading session of 28 paired-up words and their…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phrase Structure, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Wongkhan, Prueksa; Thienthong, Atikhom – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
It is generally accepted that collocation is essential for establishing synonymy. They are related linguistic features which are important and useful for language learners. Given this importance, this present study considered the experience of 120 Thai English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. The study explored the students' knowledge of…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Susan Rowe – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation explored whether unnecessary linguistic complexity (LC) in mathematics and biology assessment items changes the direction and significance of differential item functioning (DIF) between subgroups emergent bilinguals (EBs) and English proficient students (EPs). Due to inconsistencies in measuring LC in items, Study One adapted a…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Boonraksa, Thidakul; Naisena, Suparvadee – English Language Teaching, 2022
Collocation is an often-neglected language form that foreign language teachers and students should focus on to achieve competence in a target language. In this research, the researchers studied purposely to facilitate both second language teachers and students to produce correct and appropriate collocations. The purposes of this research were 1)…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Lee, Senyung; Shin, Sun-Young – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
Multiple test tasks are available for assessing L2 collocation knowledge. However, few studies have investigated the characteristics of a variety of recognition and recall tasks of collocation simultaneously, and most research on L2 collocations has focused on verb-noun and adjective-noun collocations. This study investigates (1) the relative…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Recall (Psychology)
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Lesniewska, Justyna – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
While it is a well-known fact that speakers of article-less mother tongues, such as Polish, experience problems with articles in English, this study seeks to investigate the problem from a different perspective. Namely, it poses the question of whether the correct use of the article system of the L2 is indeed a purely grammatical task (as it is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
Cornish, Francis – IRAL, 1986
Presents rules for the correct use of the French pronouns "ce" and "il," based on the criterion of discourse coherence and an understanding of the principles underlying the use of demonstrative vs. personal pronouns. (MSE)
Descriptors: Coherence, Discourse Analysis, Error Patterns, French