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Dang, Thi Ngoc Yen; Lu, Cailing; Webb, Stuart – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Academic lectures are potential sources of vocabulary learning for second language learners studying at universities where English is the medium of instruction, as well as those in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs. Topic-related vocabulary is likely to occur frequently in academic texts, and academic speech consists of a reasonable…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Phrase Structure, Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning
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Lu, Cailing; Boers, Frank; Coxhead, Averil – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This study explores English for specific purposes learners' understanding of technical words in a previously-developed technical word list in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The principal aim was to estimate what kind of technical terms pose problems to TCM learners and might therefore merit special attention in instruction. Of particular…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries