This study aimed to examine the effect of two types of collaborative output tasks on Iranian EFL learners’ comparative adjectives with two or more syllables. Thirty Iranian EFL learners participated in this study which were then divided into two experimental and one control groups; one experimental group received dictogloss task in 4-pairs and the other experimental group was given text reconst...

The article is devoted to the study of functioning English adjectival emotive units denoting positive semantics as direct linguistic means representing human emotional states that combine semantic and pragmatic components meaning. aim this paper determine features with meaning in modern English. defined approach investigation led use those research methods correspond best its goals: particular,...

Abstract. Recent research has shown that learners demonstrate huge variability in second language (L2) end-state attainment. While some L2 attain native-like command, others only an undeveloped command and stuck between. It is also assumed early often surpass owing to Lenneberg’s Critical Period Hypothesis (1967) proposes onset advance development. This study investigates the extent which, age ...

According to the editors, the Collins COBUILD grammar patterns 2: Nouns and adjectives (henceforth 'Patterns 2'), the companion volume to the Collins COBUILD grammar patterns 1: Verbs, 'presents all the patterns of English nouns and adjectives, and relates these patterns to meaning' (p vii). A noun or adjective pattern consists of the noun or adjective, together with the typical or significant ...

This paper discusses the lexicographical concept of lexical functions (Mel' cuk and Zolkovsky, 1984) and their potential exploitation in the development of a machine translation lexicon designed to handle collocations. We show how lexical functions can be thought to reeect crosslinguistic meaning concepts for collocational structures and their translational equivalents, and therefore suggest th...

The purpose of this study is to explore the differences in using adjectives between native speakers and Chinese EFL learners at beginner intermediate levels, with research data taken from three sub-written corpora ICNALE, written corpus A2 B1 levels. coded by UAM Corpus tool, version 3.2. result presented two aspects, namely, overall frequencies specific overused underused wordings. reveals tha...

IN RECENT years the anthropologists Whorf (12), Lee (9), and Hoijer (6) have put forward the view that language is a determinant of perception and thought. The nature of the determining influence exerted by the vocabulary of a language is quite clear (1), but it is less easy to see how the grammatical features of a language can affect cognition. Yet it is just the grammatical differences betwee...

Compounding is one of the most productive type word formation processes in English and it arguably controversial terms its linguistic analysis. This paper aims at describing formations bare-stem, closed compound noun English. a descriptive qualitative research, conducted by subclassifying nouns into that are based on class each element constructs compound. The result study shows that, firstly, ...