Corpus frequency and second language learners' knowledge of collocations: A meta-analysis

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 443-477

  Durrant, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collocation; Formulaic language; Frequency; Sla; Testing; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929153311     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.19.4.01dur     Document Type: Article

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