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Peer reviewedMcKay, Sandra – TESOL Quarterly, 1980
Illustrates a stategy for teaching vocabulary, using a computer-held corpus of native speakers' contextualized utterances of each word. The purpose is for the learner to develop lexical competence, that is, the ability to use a word syntactically, semantically, and pragmatically. Verbs are the focus of these materials although other parts of…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Instruction, Pragmatics, Second Language Instruction
