Making a bigger deal of the smaller words: Function words and other key items in research writing by Chinese learners (DOI:10.1016/j.jslw.2009.05.004);Making a bigger deal of the smaller words: Function words and other key items in research writing by Chinese learners

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 149-165

  Lee, David Y W ^a   Chen, Sylvia Xiao ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Collocations; Corpus linguistics; EAP; Keywords; Pedagogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650432590     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2009.07.003     Document Type: Erratum

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