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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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Alhaisoni, Eid M.; Al-Zuoud, Khalid M.; Gaudel, Daya Ram – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study reports the types of spelling errors made by the beginner learners of English in the EFL context as well as the major sources underpinning such errors in contextual writing composition tasks. Data were collected from written samples of 122 EFL students (male and female) enrolled in the intensive English language programme during the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Programs
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Watcharapunyawong, Somchai; Usaha, Siriluck – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study aimed at analyzing writing errors caused by the interference of the Thai language, regarded as the first language (L1), in three writing genres, namely narration, description, and comparison/contrast. 120 English paragraphs written by 40 second year English major students were analyzed by using Error Analysis (EA).The results revealed…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interference (Language)