Numerous studies have been carried out to find the relation between neighborhood effect and retention of lexical items. This study was an attempt to find such a relationship among Iranian EFL learners. Participants, advanced second English learners, were chosen based on the Oxford Placement Test. Participants completed a lexical decision task that was designed and performed by a computer softwa...

The term lexical approach was introduced in 1993 by Michael Lewis, who observed that "language consists of grammaticalized lexis, not lexicalised grammar" (The Lexical Approach, 1993).

Lexical Simplification is the task of replacing individual words of a text with words that are easier to understand, so that the text as a whole becomes easier to comprehend, e.g. by people with learning disabilities or by children who learn to read. Although this seems like a straightforward task, evaluating algorithms for this task is not so. The problem is how to build a dataset that provide...

The paper presents the newest research methodologies used in analysis and description of foreign lexical loans, such as usage-based approach, experimental set-ups, well corpus-assisted that includes automatic identification excerption unassimilated loanwords. approach design spring from revised perception linguistic borrowing contact linguistics, seen now a social act, which recipient language ...

This paper is a study of the language used to articulate UK foreign policy regarding unification Germany. It identifies events which drove changes in and explores ministers’ discourse as government’s evolved. The primary source material bespoke corpus extracted from Hansard, official report on proceedings Parliament. comprises words attributed Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary his ministerial t...

as a member of larger familyof formulaic sequences , lexical bundles play different discourse functions in written research articles. this study investigated the use of four-word lexical bundles in published research articles in medicine via natural language processing by computational linguistics. a corpus of 2,420,914 words was extracted from 790 research articles in 33 medical disciplines. f...

This study investigated whether Lexical Inferencing (L1) and Morphological Instruction (MI) can significantly affect EFL learners’ reading comprehension, furthermore, it also examined their effects on the learners’ vocabulary retention over time. 60 homogeneous EFLlearnerswere randomly assigned to two experimental and a control groups. After the pre-test, participants of the first experimental ...

Lewis (1993) recognized significance of word combinations including collocations by presenting lexical approach. Because of the crucial role of collocation in vocabulary acquisition, this research set out to evaluate the rate of collocations in Iranian EFL learners' writing production across L1 and L2. In addition, L1 interference with L2 collocational use in the learner' writing samples was st...