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Sumonsriworakun, Piyaboot – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
The study compares three synonymous nouns, "disadvantage," "downside," and "drawback," in terms of their frequency, distribution patterns, and collocations, using data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The findings show that the frequency of "disadvantage" is the highest, followed by…
Descriptors: Nouns, Word Frequency, Word Order, Language Usage
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Booton, Sophie A.; Wonnacott, Elizabeth; Hodgkiss, Alex; Mathers, Sandra; Murphy, Victoria A. – Applied Linguistics, 2022
Most common words in English have multiple different meanings, but relatively little is known about why children grasp some meanings better than others. This study aimed to examine how variables at the child-level, wordform-level, and meaning-level impact knowledge of words with multiple meanings. In this study, 174 children aged 5- to 9-years-old…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Psycholinguistics, Language Tests, Verbal Ability
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Lertcharoenwanich, Pallapa – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
For English language learners, mastering the use of near-synonyms can be challenging. Despite the semantic similarities of English synonyms, they are not interchangeable in all contexts. The objectives of this corpus-based study are to examine differences between the near-synonymous adjectives "blank," "empty" and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phrase Structure, Preferences, Nouns
Kevin Parent; Stuart McLean; Brandon Kramer; Young Ae Kim – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
Graded readers are a great asset to learners acquiring the vocabulary of another language. Homonyms, on the other hand, are a recognized source of trouble for students with that same goal. Publishers of graded readers control the presentation of old and new words, but does this control extend to homonyms? Are only the word forms controlled for--in…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Vocabulary Development, Definitions, Etymology
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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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David Allen – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2020
Japanese loanwords are mainly derived from English. These loanwords provide a considerable first-language (L1) resource that may assist in second-language (L2) vocabulary learning and instruction. However, given the huge number of loanwords, it is often difficult to determine whether an English word has a loanword equivalent and whether the…
Descriptors: Japanese, Linguistic Borrowing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Nguyen, Chi-Duc – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This study examined whether the reading passages in the new series of English-language textbooks for high-school students in Vietnam fostered reading comprehension and incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading by looking at four factors: the number of unfamiliar words in the texts, the importance of these words for text comprehension, the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Textbook Preparation, Inferences, Second Language Learning
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Salihoglu, Umut M.; Yalçin, Isil – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study investigates the use of L1 glosses during computerized reading in the English Language Teaching (ELT) context. A group of 26 ELT students at a large Turkish public university read three short texts and used pop-up glosses to promote their comprehension. Web pages were designed for reading and glosses, and a screen capture tool recorded…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Reading Materials, Definitions
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Liu, Dilin; Myers, Daniel – Language Teaching Research, 2020
English phrasal verbs (PVs) are ubiquitous and often polysemous. These lexical items are thus very important, but also challenging for ESL/EFL learners. Substantial research that can inform instructional approaches to PVs has already been conducted. One strand of this research has focused on identifying PVs that merit prioritization in learning.…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Xu, Qi – English Language Teaching, 2016
The present paper is a review of literature in relation to formulaic sequences and the implications for second language learning. The formulaic sequence is a significant part of our language, and plays an essential role in both first and second language learning. The paper first introduces the definition, classifications, and major features of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Literature Reviews, Definitions, Classification
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Ozturk, Meral – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2017
The extent of words with multiple meanings in English has important implications for the vocabulary learning load of EFL learners. The greater proportion of such words among the target vocabulary implies an increased learning load. The present study investigates the extent of multiple word meanings among the most frequent 9,000 words of the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Web Sites
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Nagovitsyna, N. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2018
The article presents the procedure and results of a linguistic experimental study of the cognitive characteristics underlying basic ideas about patriotism in the modern Russian language consciousness as identified by the author from previous studies of the semantic content of the concept of PATRIOTISM in accordance with language data. The purpose…
Descriptors: Russian, Language Usage, Patriotism, Semantics
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Garnier, Mélodie; Schmitt, Norbert – Language Teaching Research, 2015
As researchers and practitioners are becoming more aware of the importance of multi-word items in English, there is little doubt that phrasal verbs deserve teaching attention in the classroom. However, there are thousands of phrasal verbs in English, and so the question for practitioners is which phrasal verbs to focus attention upon. Phrasal verb…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Verbs, Teaching Methods, Word Lists
Richards, Jack C. – RELC Journal, 1974
This article discusses various approaches to vocabulary selection for second language teaching. The criteria of availability, familiarity, coverage, and meaning are suggested as important in vocabulary selection. (AM)
Descriptors: Definitions, Language Instruction, Lexicology, Psycholinguistics
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Hunt, Alan – Kansai Gadai University Journal of Inquiry and Research, 1997
A discussion of dictionaries and their use for second language (L2) learning suggests that lack of computerized modern language corpora can adversely affect bilingual dictionaries, commonly used by L2 learners, and shows how use of such corpora has benefitted two contemporary monolingual L2 learner dictionaries (1995 editions of the Longman…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Databases, Definitions, Dictionaries