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Download full textBunsorn, Maliwan; Poonlarp, Tongtip – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2019
This study aims to explore cross-language intensification in affirmative sentences by examining the translation of standard amplifiers, words that scale upward towards an assumed norm to emphasize a quality of any entities, from Thai into English. The data comprises 602 parallel concordance lines with 17 intensifying patterns, which were drawn…
Descriptors: Thai, Translation, English (Second Language), Contrastive Linguistics
Yang, Bei – English Language Teaching, 2016
As an important yet intricate linguistic feature in English language, synonymy poses a great challenge for second language learners. Using the 100 million-word British National Corpus (BNC) as data and the software Sketch Engine (SkE) as an analyzing tool, this article compares the usage of "learn" and "acquire" used in natural…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Mao, Zhicheng; Jiang, Lin – English Language Teaching, 2017
This paper aims to investigate the effects of the alignment entailed in the continuation task on syntactic complexity in L2 written production. A total number of 48 sophomores majoring in English at a university in China were randomly assigned to two groups, one is the continuation group and the other is the topic writing group. The current study…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
