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Google Scholar and COCA-Academic: Two very different approaches to examining academic English
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It is shown that – with the searches done correctly – COCA offers much more data than Brezina suggests and the new WordAndPhrase.info site provides even more user-friendly access to C OCA data.About:
This article is published in Journal of English for Academic Purposes.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 14 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Coca & English for academic purposes.read more
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Syntactic complexity in English as a lingua franca academic writing
Xue Wu,Anna Mauranen,Lei Lei +2 more
TL;DR: This article studied how ELF users express meaning relations in research articles using different syntactic structures and found that ELF authors use longer sentences to improve communication efficiency and more coordinate phrases and complex nominals to enhance clarity and to increase explicitness.
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Engaging in vocabulary learning in science: the promise of multimodal instruction
TL;DR: For example, the authors used scientific language with the goal of being concise and precise, which allows to be used by an outsider to understand the science process and its processes. But, to a science outsider, science language often appears unnecessarily technical and dense.
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Applying data-driven learning to the web
TL;DR: The web to a corpus, regular search engines to concordancers, and the techniques used in web searches to data-driven learning are compared and previous studies which exploit web searches in ways not incompatible with a DDL approach are examined.
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Selecting Academic Vocabulary Words Worth Learning.
Dianna Townsend,Darl Kiernan +1 more
TL;DR: The Word and Phrase Tool, when paired with teacher knowledge about students and objectives, can help teachers promote the academic vocabulary development of their students as discussed by the authors, which is a tool for identifying high-utility academic words from instructional texts.
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Frequency effects on first and second language compositional phrase comprehension and production
TL;DR: This article found that L1 and L2 speakers retain memory of word co-occurrences and that compositional phrase processing reflects an accumulation of statistics in previously encountered input, while L2 learners were more likely to process more frequent compositional phrases.
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Using Corpora in the Language Classroom
TL;DR: This book will contain word lists, concordance output and other material based on corpus research that can be used to create activities outlined in the book and also as a resource for future activities that teachers can create for their particular teaching contexts.
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Using Corpora in the Language Learning Classroom: Corpus Linguistics for Teachers
TL;DR: Using Corpora in the Language Learning Classroom "is intended for graduate students who are studying applied linguistics or TESOL, for teacher-trainers working with language instructors, and for practicing language teachers who want to better understand corpus linguistics and how to incorporate it into their classroom.
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The Linguistic Structure of Modern English
TL;DR: This text is for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language, primary or secondary-school education, English stylistics, theoretical and applied linguistics, or speech pathology.
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Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English
TL;DR: In this article, Corpus linguistics in cyberspace is studied in terms of counting, calculating and annotating, checking colligations and collocations, finding phrases, and finding phrases.
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Understanding English Grammar: A Linguistic Introduction
TL;DR: Pragmatic grounding and pragmatically marked constructions, as well as basic concepts in English syntax, are presented.