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Publication Date: 1987
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Expressing Temporal Frequency in Academic English.
Kennedy, Graeme D.
TESOL Quarterly, v21 n1 p69-86 Mar 1987
Describes a methodology for discovering how the communicative notion of temporal frequency is expressed in academic English. Almost 300 different linguistic devices are identified and described, along with the number of times they each occur in two large corpora of written academic English. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Uses in Education, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, Grammar, Notional Functional Syllabi, Postsecondary Education, Second Language Instruction, Semantics, Statistical Distributions, Textbook Evaluation, Word Frequency
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