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Sonomura, Marion Okawa – 1996
Going beyond mere grammaticality, this book examines the basic writing skills of a group of community college students in Hawaii for errors in idiomaticity, or native-like appropriateness of expression. The book suggests criteria for the classification of "phrasematic" expressions, and a convenient terminology comprising idioms,…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classification, Community Colleges, English
