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Hesamoddin Shahriari; Masoud Motamedynia – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
The present study investigated the lexical demands of scripted and unscripted television programs. To that end, two corpora consisting of 286 episodes from 14 different programs, both scripted and unscripted, were analyzed. The results indicated that the 1,000 most frequent word families, plus proper nouns, marginal words, transparent compounds,…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Television, Programming (Broadcast)
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Szudarski, Pawel – TESL Canada Journal, 2017
The aim of this article is to present and summarize the main research findings in the area of learning and teaching second language (L2) collocations. Being a large part of naturally occurring language, collocations and other types of multiword units (e.g., idioms, phrasal verbs, lexical bundles) have been identified as important aspects of L2…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning