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Liu, Dilin – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2010
Since the late 1980s, collocations have received increasing attention in applied linguistics, especially language teaching, as is evidenced by the many publications on the topic. These works fall roughly into two lines of research (a) those focusing on the identification and use of collocations (Benson, 1989; Hunston, 2002; Hunston & Francis,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Applied Linguistics, Reference Materials, Second Language Learning
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Gair, James W.; Karunatilaka, W. S. – 1976
This summary gathers together for easy reference the inflected forms of Literary Sinhala together with a transliteration guide to the writing system. This work differs, therefore, from the authors' previous work, "Literary Sinhala" (1974), which presented the inflected forms in a pedagogical sequence. In this summary, the inflected forms…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Guides, Language Instruction
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Wang, Fred Fangyu – 1971
This dictionary is a companion volume to the "Mandarin Chinese Dictionary (Chinese-English)" published in 1967 by Seton Hall University. The purpose of the dictionary is to help English-speaking students produce Chinese sentences in certain cultural situations by looking up the English expressions. Natural, spoken Chinese expressions within the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Definitions, Dictionaries, English
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Liu, Dilin – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2003
Most teaching and reference materials on English idioms are primarily intuition based. As such, they often include seldom-used idioms and incorrect descriptions of the meaning and use of some idioms, hence limiting their usefulness to ESOL students. This article demonstrates how this problem can be addressed through a corpus-based study of the…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Item Analysis, Reference Materials, North American English
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British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1973
This selective bibliography lists 13 books and 53 journal articles dealing with Spanish-English contrastive studies. The entries range in date from 1935 to 1972 with the majority published since 1965. Most of the books cited were published in Great Britain or the United States and the articles appeared in well-known pedagogical language journals…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Schmitt, Norbert; Schmitt, Diane Rae – Thai TESOL Bulletin, 1993
This article discusses second language vocabulary learning strategies and includes an analysis and classification of possible strategies and the report of a study conducted among second language learners in Japan. Research on vocabulary learning strategies is synthesized into two lists of strategies: 14 methods for initial learning of a new word's…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar