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Plain Language or Anything But?
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In: Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research (2022)
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Exploring EFL teachers' English language proficiency: Lessons from Indonesia ...
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The vocabulary of aviation radiotelephony communication in simulator emergencies and the contradictions in air traffic controller beliefs about language use
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Evaluating lists of high-frequency words: Teachers’ and learners’ perspectives ...
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Supplementary_data_3rd_submission – Supplemental material for Evaluating lists of high-frequency words: Teachers’ and learners’ perspectives ...
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Supplementary_data_3rd_submission – Supplemental material for Evaluating lists of high-frequency words: Teachers’ and learners’ perspectives ...
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Argument-based validation of a high-stakes Listening test in Vietnam
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Tran, Diep. - : Victoria University of Wellington, 2020
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Dot the pill down: Investigating the linguistic needs of foreign rugby players and lexicon of spoken rugby discourse
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Using character-grams to automatically generate pseudowords and how to evaluate them
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The effects of different learning conditions on the development of collocational knowledge in a second language
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Promoting discovery learning of formulaic language with the aid of online resources: A classroom-based study with intermediate EFL learners
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This classroom-based study was motivated by the call for effective pedagogical paths to help learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) acquire multiword expressions (MWEs) in the target language. The central question addressed was how training EFL learners to identify MWEs in authentic texts (text-chunking) with the aid of online dictionaries and the online interface of the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) (http://corpus.byu.edu) affected their uptake and awareness of formulaic language. Learners’ discovery strategies during text-chunking activities were also investigated. The participants were 54 Vietnamese intermediate-level university students, randomly assigned to an experimental or comparison group. Over ten weeks, the experimental group (n=26) was asked to look for MWEs in texts, while the comparison group (n=28) used the same reading materials for content-related activities. Utilizing a mixed methods approach, this project analysed data gathered from a pre-test, an immediate post-test, a five-month delayed post-test, students’ classroom notes and audio-recorded discussions, and immediate and delayed questionnaires. Four main findings emerged from this study. Firstly, the practice of text-chunking benefited the students’ retention of the MWEs they identified in the texts. Whereas test results indicated that learning occurred in both groups, the experimental group demonstrated the greater gains in MWE knowledge. Secondly, experimental learners decided to investigate whether given word strings might be MWEs mostly if they were phrases (a) that they had previously seen, (b) that included known words combined in novel ways, and c) that included unknown content words within familiar structures such as verb + preposition, preposition + noun, or binomials (i.e. noun ‘and’ noun). Also, learners relied mostly on constituent words and language contexts to guess the meaning of newly-found MWEs. Thirdly, text-chunking practice with the aid of online dictionaries and COCA heightened the learners’ awareness of the importance of expanding their knowledge of formulaic language. This heightened awareness endured over the five-month gap between the end of the classroom experiment and the final questionnaire. The intervention also concentrated experimental learners’ MWE learning strategies on those practised during the treatment including underlining new MWEs, taking notes, looking them up in dictionaries and COCA, and discussing with peers. Fourthly, while the experimental group reported increased autonomy in strategy use to support their MWE acquisition, the use of online dictionaries and corpora still posed challenges for learners’ self-study. Stumbling blocks included how to choose the resources to consult and how to extract the necessary information from not-so-user-friendly interfaces. This thesis also discusses pedagogical and methodological implications of the findings so that teachers and learners in EFL contexts can make judicious use of text-chunking activities and online resources for the ultimate purpose of promoting learners’ autonomous MWE acquisition.
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Class-room based; Multiword expressions; Reading
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/8270
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Investigating knowledge and use of technical vocabulary in Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Cailing, Lu. - : Victoria University of Wellington, 2018
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Professional development of English language teachers in Malang, Indonesia: Institutional and individual perspectives
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An experimental design perspective on the affordances of concordances: Exploring the affordances of concordances from a language learning perspective
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Investigating vocabulary in academic spoken English: Corpora, teachers, and learners
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Peer Interaction Opportunities for Non-Native-Speaker-of-English International Students in Postgraduate Courses of a NZ University
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Assessing English as an International Language for Government Officials
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