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Peer reviewedJuffs, Alan – Language Teaching Research, 1998
Provides an analysis of the frequency of verbs and their syntactic requirements in "Interchange" (Richards et al., 1991), a popular series of textbooks for English as a Second Language (ESL). A corpus analysis of "Interchange" suggests that ESL materials may underrepresent some of the verb classes that are known to cause learners difficulty.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
