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Download full textHoang, Hien; Boers, Frank – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
Adult second language (L2) learners have often been found to produce discourse that manifests limited and non-native-like use of multiword expressions. One explanation for this is that adult L2 learners are relatively unsuccessful (in the absence of pedagogic intervention) at transferring multiword expressions from input texts to their own output…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Direct linkBoers, Frank; Demecheleer, Murielle; Coxhead, Averil; Webb, Stuart – Language Teaching Research, 2014
Many contemporary textbooks for English as a foreign language (EFL) and books for vocabulary study contain exercises with a focus on collocations, with verb-noun collocations (e.g. "make a mistake") being particularly popular as targets for collocation learning. Common exercise formats used in textbooks and other pedagogic materials…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Adults
