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Download full textSong, 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
Lam, Boji P. W.; Sheng, Li – English Language Teaching, 2020
Significant variation exists in how native speakers respond to word association tasks and challenges the usage of nativelikeness as a benchmark to gauge second language (L2) performance. However, the influence of word class and trials of elicitation is not sufficiently addressed in previous work. With controlled stimuli from multiple word classes,…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Native Speakers, Associative Learning, Task Analysis
Yang, Bei – English Language Teaching, 2016
As an important yet intricate linguistic feature in English language, synonymy poses a great challenge for second language learners. Using the 100 million-word British National Corpus (BNC) as data and the software Sketch Engine (SkE) as an analyzing tool, this article compares the usage of "learn" and "acquire" used in natural…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
