The work presented provides computational linguistics methods and tools for collocation identiication from arbitrary text, and methods and tools for representing collocations in a relational database integrating competence (collocation-type-speciic linguistic analysis) and performance information (corpus sentences). The work diiers from existing approaches to collo-cation identiication in syste...

The article analyzes the problem of development foreign language discourse competence undergraduates non-linguistic specialties. main concepts related to topic research (“competence”, “communicative competence”, “discourse”, “foreign communicative competence”) have been studied. structure and peculiarities undergraduates’ has described.

The cognitive and linguistic processes involved in the acquisition and use of two languages are systematically different from those processes engaged in monolingual language use, leading to detectable changes in language and cognitive outcomes for bilinguals. The present article describes these differences and offers speculation on possible mechanisms. Measures of linguistic proficiency and pro...

The quality of communication between patients and clinicians can have a major impact on health outcomes, and limited English proficiency can interfere with effective communication. More than ten million U.S. residents speak English poorly or not at all, constituting a language chasm in the health care system. This paper reviews the evidence on the link between linguistic competence and health c...

 Second language  learners often develop grammatical competence in the absence of concomitant pragmatic competence (Kasper & Roever, 2005) and the exact nature of the relationship between the two competences is still indistinct and in need of inquiries ( Bardovi-Harlig, 1999; Khatib & Ahmadisafa, 2011). This study is a partial attempt to address the lacuna and aims to see if any relationship ca...