This study aims at identifying the similarities and differences between weather-related metaphors in English Arabic terms of structure, function, range collocations. A sample was collected from bilingual monolingual dictionaries both languages relevant corpora such as COCA BNC. In addition, were everyday conversations, dialogues talk shows two languages. The data analysis revealed that are refl...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate relations among different aspects in supervised word sense disambiguation (WSD; supervised machine learning for disambiguating the sense of a term in a context) and compare supervised WSD in the biomedical domain with that in the general English domain. METHODS The study involves three data sets (a biomedical abbreviation data set, a general ...

Interests in examining the roles of receptive vocabulary knowledge and collocational competence on EFL learners’ proficiency have grown considerably; yet, extent how noun, verb-noun collocations, noun-preposition collocations impact their English skill performances is still insufficiently researched. To address such gaps, this study specifically explored Thai nouns its performances. Three types...

In this paper we proposed that the neglected three words collocations (trillocation) should be emphasized in collocation study. From the point of view of colligations, more useful collocations could be covered by adding a third category. For a specific third word, it will help avoid the unnaturalness of a two words collocation. A statistic based automatic trillocation extracting system is propo...

Collocations are ubiquitous in everyday language, which help language users sound more natural and ease the processing burden during production. They also commonly taught foreign classrooms those learners who can master these prevalent word combinations chunks get to use fluently as they enjoy a advantage. There different approaches definition of frequently co-occurring combinations, but curren...

This study aimed to examine how L1 Arabic learners incidentally acquire L2 English collocations through various input modes in academic lectures. A quasi-experimental design was employed, involving 87 studying at a Saudi university. The participants were randomly divided into six groups (5 intervention and one control group). An objective type multiple-choice question test conducted three phase...

Article history Received: 02-05-2015 Revised: 14-05-2015 Accepted: 14-05-2015 Abstract: Constructions are usage-based, conventionalised pairings of form and function within a cline of complexity and schematisation. Most research within Construction Grammar has focused on the monolingual description of schematic constructions: Mainly in English, but to a lesser extent in other languages as well....