The present study investigates the effects of congruency and frequency on adjective-noun collocational processing for Chinese learners of English at two proficiency levels based on the data obtained in an online accep...
This study compared and analyzed the features of keywords and their collocations in corpora:Chinese Government Work Reports and State of the Union(USA).A further comparison and analysis of the collocations of“develop...
It is difficult for L2 English learners in general, and especially Chinese learners of English, to form idiomatic collocations. This article presents a comparison of the use of intensifier-verb collocations in English...
Idioms,collocations,and formulaic phrases are three factors playing the important role in the second language acquisition(SLA).This essay firstly deals with the definitions of these concepts,then it illustrates the im...
Chinglish is often considered redundant,inappropriate or even misleading,while China English,a term put forward in 1980 by the Chinese linguist Ge Chuangui,is the Chinese variety of English which is acceptable for Kac...
In order to explore collocational usage competence across two different contexts,NS and NNS,in the current study,I investigated usage and frequency of collocation of Taiwan Residents learners of English(TWN),Indonesia...
Oppositional collocations,such as dead nice in English,or shuai dai le(handsome dumb le,‘extremely handsome’)in Chinese,are expressions that use words with emotionally contradictory senses to achieve a single positi...
supported by a grant from the China National Social Science Foundation(14CYY018)
The role of written corrective feedback(CF) in the process of acquiring a second language(L2) has been an issue of considerable controversies over past decades. This study thus endeavors to extend current work on ...
This paper takes a look at the color idioms in English and their meanings. We note that the color idioms are idioms that deal with colors or include at least a color within the idiom. Most of the important color idiom...
The aim of this paper was to investigate the most frequent verb collocations which occur in medical texts and to check the competence of the first-year students of medical English in using them. Merck's Manual of Med...