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ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF TRANSLATION MEMORY: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF TRANSLATION MEMORY: A COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS 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
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
A Comparative Study of Introductory ‘it’ in A Comparative Study of Introductory ‘it’ in Research Articles Across Eight Disciplines http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/publications/CL2007/abstract/13_Abstract.pdf Abstract This paper describes an analysis of introductory ‘it’ plus that-clause and to-clause complementation, structures said to be particularly important in academic English, in 288 research articles (RAs) across eight disciplines. We also.. 더보기
A Corpus-Driven Study of the Variation of Co-Occurrence A Corpus-Driven Study of the Variation of Co-Occurrence Patterns in Written and Spoken Registers Abstract This paper will focus on the study of the variation of co-occurrence patterns encountered in written and spoken registers, through the analysis of a large lexical database of corpus-extracted multiword expressions (MWEs) of European Portuguese. Those MWEs were automatically extracted from a .. 더보기