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Relationships between Lexical Coverage, Learner Knowledge, and Teacher Perceptions of the Usefulness of High-Frequency Words
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Dang, Thi Ngoc Yen; Webb, Stuart; Coxhead, Averil – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Recently researchers have proposed using information from teachers and learners to supplement the information from corpora in the selection of the most useful words for foreign language learners. Yet the extent to which these data sets correlate to one another is unclear. This study explicitly investigated the relationships between (a) the lexical…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
Examining Second Language Receptive Knowledge of Collocation and Factors That Affect Learning
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Nguyen, Thi My Hang; Webb, Stuart – Language Teaching Research, 2017
This study investigated Vietnamese EFL learners' knowledge of verb-noun and adjective-noun collocations at the first three 1,000 word frequency levels, and the extent to which five factors (node word frequency, collocation frequency, mutual information score, congruency, and part of speech) predicted receptive knowledge of collocation. Knowledge…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure