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Download full textSutasinee Khoonthongnoom – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2024
The purpose of this research is to explore three English synonyms, namely critical, serious, and crucial, with a particular focus on meanings, degrees of formality, collocations, and semantic preferences. Two dictionaries, namely the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary and the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary online, as well as the Corpus…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Semantics, Preferences, English
Nateethorn Narkprom – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Through consultations with the online version of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), this study focuses on distinguishing between the two synonymous verbs "restrict" and "constrain," both part of Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List, in terms of formality…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Verbs, Dictionaries, English
Thanut Panrat; Vimolchaya Yanasugondha – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This study analyzes four English synonyms -- clear, obvious, apparent, and evident -- concentrating on meanings, distribution across genre, collocations, and semantic preference and prosody. The data were drawn from learner's dictionaries and the Corpus of the Contemporary American English (COCA). It was discovered that the four synonyms share the…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Dictionaries, Definitions, North American English
Tran Ngoc Quynh Phuong; Bao Trang Thi Nguyen; Thi Linh Giang Hoang; Vu Quynh Nhu Nguyen; Le Hoang Phuong Ngo – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2024
This article examines the use of prompt-based lexical collocations in opinion essays by Vietnamese English as a foreign language (EFL) students. Fifty second-year English majors at a Vietnamese university wrote 100 opinion essays on two topics as progress tests. The AntConc programme (Anthony, 2020) was employed to identify the frequencies of use…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
