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Nordlund, Marie – Education Inquiry, 2016
This article reports the findings of a comparative analysis of two English teaching course book series which are widely used in school years 4-6 in Sweden: Good Stuff and New Champion. The analysis comprises comparisons of the vocabulary component in the teaching materials and examines the extent to which words -- adjectives, nouns and verbs --…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Word Frequency, Textbooks, Elementary School Students
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Snoder, Per – TESL Canada Journal, 2017
This article reports on a classroom-based experiment that tested the effects of three vocabulary teaching constructs (involvement load, spacing, and intentionality) on the learning of English verb-noun collocations--for example, "shelve a plan." Laufer and Hulstijn's (2001) "involvement load" predicts that the higher the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure