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Biting off More than They Can Chew? The Impact of Pedagogical Application of Corpus on Vocabulary Ability of Intermediate-Level ESL Learners in Mainland China: A Quasi-Experimental Study
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Shi, Jing – English Language Teaching, 2017
The pedagogical values of corpora for ELT have been widely acknowledged and exploited, but their direct application in classroom teaching has entailed many difficulties. This project aims to investigate the impact of the pedagogical application of corpora on the vocabulary ability of intermediate-level ESL learners in mainland China. This…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
An Analysis of the Application of Wikipedia Corpus on the Lexical Learning in the Second Language Acquisition
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Shi, Jing – English Language Teaching, 2015
Corpus linguistics has transformed linguistic research but has a slightly moderate impact on the ESL teaching and learning. The Wikipedia Corpus, designed by Mark Davis is introduced in this essay. The corpus allows teachers to search Wikipedia in a powerful way: they can search by word, phrase, part of speech, and synonyms. Teachers can also find…
Descriptors: Encyclopedias, Collaborative Writing, Electronic Publishing, English (Second Language)