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TESOL English Language Bulletin- SWRLing with EL: Speaking, writing, reading and listening 17 August 2017
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Tag Archives: corpus
Corpora in Adult Ed
Rob Sheppard
What Is a Corpus? Corpse, marine corps, corporation, and corpulent all derive from the Latin word corpus, meaning body. That Latin word corpus also exists, intact, in English, but rather than an anatomical body, it refers to a body of … Continue reading
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Tagged as adult education, corpus, evergreen, linguistics, Robert Sheppard
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Figuring out the frequency of two word verbs
The December 2011 TESOL Quarterly contains a wonderful study by Dilin Liu analyzing the frequency of phrasal verbs across several corpora. This is a really useful article for teachers and materials writers, with lots of great information in it and … Continue reading
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Tagged as analysis, corpus, Dilin Liu, ELT, ESL, frequency, idioms, Joe McVeigh, phrasal verbs, teaching, TESOL Quarterly, two-word verbs
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