NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Fatimah Jeharsae; Theerat Chaweewan; Yusop Boonsuk – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
The global prevalence of English as a lingua franca (ELF) across diverse linguacultural communities within the three circles invites an in-depth analysis of its phonological and lexicogrammatical features, especially among non-native English speakers. This qualitative study investigated these features among 30 Thai students from English and…
Descriptors: Nonstandard Dialects, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Ong, Christina Sook Beng; Rahim, Hajar Abdul – TESL-EJ, 2021
This study investigates the use of DO, HAVE, MAKE, GIVE and TAKE in light verb constructions (LVCs) and their corresponding simplex verb forms in British L1 and Malaysian L2 students' writing. The students' essay sub-corpus of the International Corpus of English (ICE) of Great Britain (ICE-GB) and Malaysia (ICE-Malaysia) formed the data of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Verbs, Native Language, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Uba, Sani Yantandu; Irudayasamy, Julius – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
This study emerged as a result of insufficient knowledge and descriptions of the behavioural profiles of the near-synonym English verbs, "increase" and "rise," by non-corpus-based traditional reference sources used by students. We explored the behavioural characteristics of this group of near-synonym verbs using the British…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, English, Language Variation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Suntornsawet, Jirada – Journal of English as an International Language, 2019
English as an International Language (EIL) is grounded in the concept of multiplicity. Such proliferation of non-native varieties of English leads to several controversies including the intelligibility of its speakers to listeners from various language backgrounds. Although this concern has been continuously addressed in EIL research, the focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Pronunciation, Comprehension
Lan, Ge – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Since the 1990s, grammatical complexity is a topic that has received considerable attention in various fields of applied linguistics, such as English for academic purposes, second language acquisition, language testing, and second language writing (Bulte & Housen, 2012). Many scholars in applied linguistics have recently argued that…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Zou, Bin, Ed.; Smith, Simon, Ed.; Hoey, Michael, Ed. – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2015
Rapid advances in computing have enabled the integration of corpora into language teaching and learning, yet in China corpus methods have not yet been widely adopted. Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts aims to advance the state of the art in the use of corpora in applied linguistics and contribute to the expertise in corpus use in China.
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Applied Linguistics