The distribution of four-character idioms in Chinese news texts and its implications for CFL learning and instruction
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While the selection of idioms for beginning level CFL learning and instruction is mostly determined byindividual preferences and pedagogical considerations, we propose that idiom selection targeting intermediateand advanced level CFL learners is better guided by a data-driven approach. Based on 20-million charactercorpus of Chinese news texts, we generated a reference frequency list of four-character idioms where only asmall portion of the idioms occurs at high-frequency level and the majority at low frequency level.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007