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Syihabuddin Syihabuddin; Nurul Murtadho; Yusring Sanusi Baso; Hikmah Maulani; Shofa Musthofa Khalid – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Assessing whether a book is relevant or suitable for use in teaching materials is not an easy and haphazard matter, various methods and theories have been offered by researchers in studying this matter. Taking a study of the context of textbooks, researchers found the urgency that textbooks are a foundation for education, socialization…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
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Özkan, Erdost – Journal of Education and Learning, 2023
The purpose of this study is to examine the vocabulary included in listening texts in the textbooks used in teaching Turkish to foreigners according to their types. The study was limited to New Istanbul Turkish For International Students Course Book-A1 level. Accordingly, a total of eighteen listening texts in six units were analyzed. The document…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary, Textbooks, Turkish
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Simsek, Ramazan; Gün, Mesut – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2021
While the significance of corpus-based research in the teaching of foreign language and native language is increasing, the need for such studies is also increasing accordingly. The priority of the vocabulary taught in language education are identified through corpus-based studies in line with the international criteria set in the relevant field.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Gu, Wenyuan – Online Submission, 2022
The purpose of this article is to help ESL (English as a Second Language) students or English language learners (ELLs) how to express or use moods correctly when they study English. The expression of moods was summarized and illustrated from various examples cited or given, on the basis of the writer's more than twenty years' teaching experience…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
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Cao, Dung Thi Phuong; Pho, Phuong Dzung; Chi, Dang Nguyen Anh – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2022
The present study investigates collocational profiles that appear in the English textbook series for Vietnamese students from elementary to high school grades by identifying how the series covers collocations in terms of frequency and how the mode of collocation presentation aligns with recommendations in the existing literature. A total of 30,005…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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To, Vinh – SAGE Open, 2018
Adopting systemic functional linguistics (hereafter SFL) as the main theoretical framework, this study as part of a larger research project, aimed to examine how the language of textbooks deployed in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in the Vietnamese context shifted across levels in a book series. In order to do this, this research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Lee, Jinkyong – English Language Teaching, 2015
The current study aims to examine the use of chunks and the extent of repetition in Korean middle school English textbooks. Also, the number of chunks shared by three publishers is examined. To create the corpora, 9 textbooks from three publishers were filed and processed by Simple Concordance Program. The results showed that chunk expressions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Boers, Frank; Dang, Tu Cam Thi; Strong, Brian – Language Teaching Research, 2017
In a recent article, Boers, Demecheleer, Coxhead, and Webb (2014) deplored the lack of effectiveness for the learning of verb-noun collocations of a number of exercise formats which they sampled from EFL textbooks and put to the test in a series of quasi-experimental trials. The authors called for further investigations into possible improvements…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Quasiexperimental Design, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Nordlund, Marie – Education Inquiry, 2016
This article reports the findings of a comparative analysis of two English teaching course book series which are widely used in school years 4-6 in Sweden: Good Stuff and New Champion. The analysis comprises comparisons of the vocabulary component in the teaching materials and examines the extent to which words -- adjectives, nouns and verbs --…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Word Frequency, Textbooks, Elementary School Students
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Tsai, Kuei-Ju – Language Teaching Research, 2015
The present study investigates the collocational profiles of (1) three series of graded textbooks for English as a foreign language (EFL) commonly used in Taiwan, (2) the written productions of EFL learners, and (3) the written productions of native speakers (NS) of English. These texts were examined against a purpose-built collocation list. Based…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure
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Menon, Sujatha; Mukundan, Jayakaran – International Education Studies, 2012
This paper analyses the discourse of science through the study of collocational patterns of high frequency noun keywords in science textbooks used by upper secondary students in Malaysia. Research has shown that one of the areas of difficulty in science discourse concerns lexis, especially that of collocations. This paper describes a corpus-based…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Nouns, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
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Deroey, Katrien L. B.; Taverniers, Miriam – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
This paper presents a comprehensive overview of lexicogrammatical devices which highlight important or relevant points in lectures. Despite the established usefulness of discourse organizational cues for lecture comprehension and note-taking, very little is known about the marking of relevance in this genre. The current overview of…
Descriptors: Cues, Language Research, Educational Research, Textbooks
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
Thomas, Earl W. – 1974
This is a first-year text of Portuguese grammar based on the Portuguese of moderately educated Brazilians from the area around Rio de Janeiro. Spoken idiomatic usage is emphasized. An important innovation is found in the presentation of verb tenses; they are presented in the order in which the native speaker learns them. The text is intended to…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Determiners (Languages), Dialects, Grammar
Bardakjian, Kevork B.; Thomson, Robert W. – 1977
This textbook is designed as a first-year course at the undergraduate level. It is specifically aimed at students with no prior knowledge of Armenian, and emphasis has been placed on the numerous subtleties and nuances of Armenian which might seem strange or difficult to English speakers. In the text, stress has been put on explaining the grammar…
Descriptors: Armenian, Form Classes (Languages), Glossaries, Grammar
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