Lexical approaches to Academic and Technical English have been well documented by scholars from as early as Cowie (1978). More recent work demonstrates how computer technology can assist in the effective analysis of corpus-based data (Cowie, 1998; Pedersen, 1995; Scott, 2000). For teaching purposes, this recent research has shown that the distinction between common coreness and diversity is a c...

This paper reports on the work carried out developing MedLex+, a medical corpuslexicon workbench for Swedish. This project, which is still under active development, has been going on for some years now within the Department of Swedish language at Göteborg University. At the moment, the workbench incorporates: an annotated collection of medical texts-including 20 million tokens and 45,000 docume...

Good command of idioms and collocations is an important ability of any natural language speaker. This ability needs to be developed not only in foreign language learners but also in people wishing to enhance their linguistic competence in the native language. Since systematic description of idiomaticity is still a very difficult issue and linguistic resources focused on idioms and collocations ...

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 This paper shows the linguistic aspect in term of discourse analysis lyrics song. Those aspects are cohesion device and grammatical cohesion. Cohesion devices divided into two descriptions, those are; lexical devices. Grammatical contains reference, ellipsis, substitution, conjunction while collocation reiteration. research analyzes from soloist band namely Alec Benjamin entitle ...

There are a large number of near-synonyms in English, differentiating these words have always been one the major difficulties English learning. The participation corpus provides new approach to identification near-synonyms.Based on Corpus Contemporary American (COCA), this study identifies Road and Street, group terms register, collocation semantic rhyme, results show that main difference betwe...

Collocational deficiency is a pervasive phenomenon in learner English. Language learners often fail to choose the correct combination of two or more words due to their unawareness of collocational properties in vocabulary. They are apt to adopt lexical simplification strategies such as using a synonymous or Ll-influenced expression. This paper presents a corpus-based study on the collocational ...

This paper presents the mechanisms of and criteria for compiling a new learner corpus of English, the quantitative characteristics of the corpus and a practical example of its pedagogical application. The Taiwanese Learner Corpus of English (TLCE), probably the largest annotated learner corpus of English in Taiwan so far, contains 2105 pieces of English writing (around 730,000 words) from Taiwa...