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Wang, Jui-hsin Teresa; Good, Robert L. – Online Submission, 2007
The importance of repetition in the acquisition of lexical items has been widely acknowledged in single-word vocabulary research but has been relatively neglected in collocation studies. Since collocations are considered one key to achieving language fluency, and because learners spend a great amount of time interacting with their textbooks, the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Textbooks, Verbs, Nouns
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Chang, Yu-Chia; Chang, Jason S.; Chen, Hao-Jan; Liou, Hsien-Chin – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2008
Previous work in the literature reveals that EFL learners were deficient in collocations that are a hallmark of near native fluency in learner's writing. Among different types of collocations, the verb-noun (V-N) one was found to be particularly difficult to master, and learners' first language was also found to heavily influence their collocation…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Verbs, Nouns, Foreign Countries
Starosta, Stanley – 1973
This research is the result of 10 weeks of field work in Taiwan during the summer of 1972. It consists of a description, analysis, and comparison of the morphologically marked causative verbs in Rukai, Bunun, Tsou, Anis, Seedig, and Saisiyat. The theoretical framework employed is a type of case grammar referred to as "lexicase," a…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Grammar, Linguistics
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Schembri, Adam; Jones, Caroline; Burnham, Denis – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2005
Recent research into signed languages indicates that signs may share some properties with gesture, especially in the use of space in classifier constructions. A prediction of this proposal is that there will be similarities in the representation of motion events by sign-naive gesturers and by native signers of unrelated signed languages. This…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Verbs, Contrastive Linguistics
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Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Cheng, Hsiang; Chu, Carol H. C.; Tseng, Judy C. R.; Hwang, Gwo-Haur – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2007
In the past decades, English learning has received lots of attention all over the world, especially for those who are not native English speakers. Various English learning and testing systems have been developed on the Internet. Nevertheless, most existing English testing systems represent the learning status of a student by assigning that student…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Web Based Instruction, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Verbs
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