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EFL Learners' Knowledge of High-Frequency Words in the Comprehension of Idioms: A Boost or A Burden?
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Direct linkPark, Jinkyoung; Chon, Yuah V. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
Single word items have usually been the unit of analysis for measuring L2 learners' vocabulary size, for designing word lists and for estimating word coverage of reading texts. However, what is lost in these estimates is the consideration of multiword expressions, such as idioms. To empirically test the assertion that the knowledge of single word…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Middle School Students
Download full textLee, Sinae; Park, Hae In – English Teaching, 2023
While metadiscourse use has been well-attended in second language (L2) writing research, relatively less effort has been made in documenting changing patterns of metadiscourse use among L2 writers. The present study addressed this gap by probing a diachronic change of interactive metadiscourse in research articles published in "English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Research, Language Patterns
Lee, Jinkyong – English Language Teaching, 2015
The current study aims to examine the use of chunks and the extent of repetition in Korean middle school English textbooks. Also, the number of chunks shared by three publishers is examined. To create the corpora, 9 textbooks from three publishers were filed and processed by Simple Concordance Program. The results showed that chunk expressions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sample, Mark Graham – Journal of International Education Research, 2014
Michael Lewis' Lexical Approach attempted to turn the EFL world on its head by proposing that language acquisition comes from lexis rather than grammar. Lewis states that "language consists not of traditional grammar and vocabulary but often of multi-word prefabricated chunks" (1997:3). Lewis' 1997 handbook, "Implementing the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Cho, Yunkyoung – 1998
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the use of connectives by learners of English as a foreign language and their length of study. Eighteen writing samples were collected, six from learners with 2 years of study of English and 12 from learners with 3 years of study. Results found that students' length of study was…
Descriptors: Conjunctions, Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1995
Papers on foreign language education include: "Beliefs About Language Learning: A Study of Korean University Students Learning English" (Susan N. Truitt), which looked at the influence of cultural background and experience on language learning attitudes; "Motivation as a Two-Sided Coin: Motivational Differences Between College-Level…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Chinese, Classroom Communication, College Students
