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Song, Qiuyuan – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study aims to explore how corpus-based approaches can be used to address the distinctions of English near-synonyms effectively. Especially, it collected source data from the British National Corpus (BNC) and adopted Sketch Engine (SkE) as an analyzing tool to compare the near synonymous pair "damage" and "destroy" commonly…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, English, Language Usage
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Chondrogianni, Vasiliki; Vasic, Nada; Marinis, Theodoros; Blom, Elma – Second Language Research, 2015
The present article examines production and on-line processing of definite articles in Turkish-speaking sequential bilingual children acquiring English and Dutch as second languages (L2) in the UK and in the Netherlands, respectively. Thirty-nine 6-8-year-old L2 children and 48 monolingual (L1) age-matched children participated in two separate…
Descriptors: Language Research, Reading Comprehension, Language Processing, Second Language Learning
Tokdemir Demirel, Elif; Kazazoglu, Semin – Online Submission, 2015
This study reports on the results of classroom research investigating the effects of using data-driven learning methods by students in revising their writing errors. The main purpose of the study is to examine to what extent is consulting a corpus effective in correcting lexical errors in their writing. It has been found in previous research that…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods