Learning L2 collocations incidentally from reading

Discourse Community Collocations and L2 Writing Content

Taking the position that writing can be an important skill to foster knowledge building pedagogy, this article explores vocabulary as a supportive tool for this purpose. Having this in mind, a compilation of conceptually loaded vocabularies pertaining to seven discourse communities was developed, two of which were given to a group of L2 writers to investigate the implications of phraseology for...

The Effect of Online Learning Tools on L2 Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Learning

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of various online techniques (word reference, media, and vocabulary games) on reading comprehension as well as vocabulary comprehension and production. For this purpose, 60 language learners were selected and divided into three groups, and each group was randomly assigned to one of the treatment conditions. In the first session of tre...

Learning L2 vocabulary through extensive reading: A case study

assessing metacognitive awareness and learning strategies as positive predictors in promoting l2 learners’ reading comprehension

the purpose of this thesis was to investigate how differently metacognitive, cognitive, and social/affective strategies affect l2 learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, the study employed a quasi-experimental design with a placement test as a proficiency test to find the homogeneity of groups. three classes were randomly selected as the experimental groups (n =90), and each class was tau...

Learning Relations Using Collocations

This paper describes the application of statistical analysis of large corpora to the problem of extracting semantic relations from unstructured text. We regard this approach as a viable method for generating input for the construction of ontologies as ontologies use well-defined semantic relations as building blocks (cf. van der Vet & Mars 1998). Starting from a short description of our corpora...