Verb-Noun Collocations in Second Language Writing: A Corpus Analysis of Learners' English

Language Learning

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 647-672

  Laufer, Batia ^a   Waldman, Tina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Collocations; Corpus analysis; Foreign language lexical development; Foreign language writing; Lexis; Multiword units; Verb noun collocations; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952156187     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2010.00621.x     Document Type: Article

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