ESL teachers' questions and corpus evidence

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 335-356

  Tsui, Amy B M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Collocation; Semantic prosody; Synonyms; Teachers' language awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248712448     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.10.3.03tsu     Document Type: Article

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