The Inclusion of Polysemes in Non-native English Textbooks: A Corpus-based Study

Despite the large number of studies conducted on polysemy, they mostly compare different methods and techniques to learn a language establish extent which particular sense relations facilitate learning second vocabulary. To our best knowledge, no research has been determine whether or not polysemy is emphasized in non-native English textbooks. The objective present was degree incorporated Thus, question guiding current study is: what textbooks? corpus-based that used data set 500 words, i.e., 250 words from each two books, utilizing Sketch Engine word list tool concordance. resulting concordance lines generated semantically annotated manually using WordNet dictionaries. results indicated barely stressed textbooks under investigation. study’s have substantial implications for foreign teaching general