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Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2024
"A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative Language and Metaphor" (2024) upgrades ED628218 (ERIC) with labels and analysis and brings the work up to date to reflect language change at the speed of the internet, ChatGPT, social discord, and bloody wars. The dictionary identifies language used figuratively in everyday…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language)
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2023
"A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative Language and Metaphor" (2023) upgrades ED619049 (ERIC) and finishes its work. The dictionary identifies language used figuratively in everyday contemporary English--to include the language of "inclusion & exclusion" and "contempo-speak"--along with its…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language)
Gu, Wenyuan – Online Submission, 2022
The purpose of this article is to help ESL (English as a Second Language) students or English language learners (ELLs) how to express or use moods correctly when they study English. The expression of moods was summarized and illustrated from various examples cited or given, on the basis of the writer's more than twenty years' teaching experience…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2022
The third and latest (2022) edition of this dictionary and thesaurus of contemporary figurative language and metaphor has been updated to better reflect the language of groups, social media, and social change. The work seeks to identify language used figuratively in everyday contemporary English, along with its distinguishing collocates. The first…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Figurative Language
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Szewel, Anatol – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
In Germanic and Slavic languages, the Verb is the most extensive grammatical item, which causes most of the troubles for second language learners. It has been noticed that Slavic L1 learners of English make mistakes in using verb forms due to the transfer of their L1 grammatical system (grammar concepts) onto the English language. The goal of the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Slavic Languages