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2012/01

Lexical Errors and Accuracy in Foreign Language Writing Lexical Errors and Accuracy in Foreign Language Writing Lexical errors are a determinant in gaining insight into vocabulary acquisition, vocabulary use and writing quality assessment. Lexical errors are very frequent in the written production of young EFL learners, but they decrease as learners gain proficiency. Misspellings are the most common category, but formal errors give way to semantic-ba.. 더보기
10 Teacher Development Task for Web 2.0 Tools 10 Teacher Development Task for Web 2.0 Tools Over the last couple of months I've been busy travelling round a bit and doing some face to face training and workshops. As part of the materials for these workshops I created a number of tasks for teachers which I hope will help develop their ability to use technology and to evaluate and create materials using web based tools. I've decide now to sha.. 더보기
Figuring out the frequency of two word verbs Figuring out the frequency of two word verbs The December 2011 TESOL Quarterly contains a wonderful study by Dilin Liu analyzing the frequency of phrasal verbs across several corpora. This is a really useful article for teachers and materials writers, with lots of great information in it and a valuable companion to his 2003 corpus study on the most common spoken American English idioms. Some of .. 더보기
On-line idiom processing by second language learners of English On-line idiom processing by second language learners of English Zainab Ghareeb-Ali University of Essex http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/department/events/egcl/egcl14/abstracts/z.ghareeb-ali.pdf Idiomatic expressions form a very important part of natural language, thus must be accounted for by any theory of language processing and comprehension. Examining how idioms are dealt with and processed.. 더보기
Semantic Prosody and ESL/EFL Semantic Prosody and ESL/EFL Vocabulary Pedagogy There is evidence that semantic prosody, a novel linguistic theme, should attract much attention in ESL/EFL (English as a second/foreign language) vocabulary learning and teaching. Research suggests that inappropriate word choice arising from ignorance of semantic prosody is common among ESL/EFL learners (Wei, 2006; Xiao & McEnery, 2006). This art.. 더보기
lexical priming-definition lexical priming-definition 더보기
Hoey's Corpus Driven approaches to grammar 더보기
Academic Vocabulary in Learner Writing: From Extraction to Analysis Academic Vocabulary in Learner Writing: From Extraction to Analysis 더보기
Collocational Knowledge versus General Linguistic Knowledge among Iranian Collocational Knowledge versus General Linguistic Knowledge among Iranian EFL Learners Hossein Shokouhi Shahid Chamran University, Iran shokouhi_hossein@yahoo.com Gholam-Ali Mirsalari Payam-Noor University, Iran Abstract This study has a twofold purpose. The first and foremost is to see whether there exists any correlation between the collocational knowledge and general linguistic knowledge of E.. 더보기
Primed for action - the practical implications of Lexical Priming Theory http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2009/sessions/64/primed-action-practical-implications-lexical-priming-theory Primed for action - the practical implications of Lexical Priming Theory 더보기