Quantifying the development of phraseological competence in L2 English writing: An automated approach

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 26, Issue , 2014, Pages 28-41

  Bestgen, Yves ^a   Granger, Sylviane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Association measure; Collocation; L2 learner corpus; N Gram; Phraseology; Writing assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914156321     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2014.09.004     Document Type: Article

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