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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Lexical chunks"”.
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The effects of learning lexical chunks on the English writing proficiency of Chinese-speaking tertiary students in Australia
… (SLA) have paid some attention to the role that lexical chunks can play in increasing second language (L2) learners’ writing success. Underpinning the current study is the concept of lexical chunks and lexical pedagogy. This thesis reports on a multi-case study of nine Chinese-speaking tertiary …
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A corpus-driven study of features of Chinese students' undergraduate writing in UK universities
… reading. A particular focus is the use of lexical chunks, or recurring strings of words. Findings from the literature on Chinese students’ written English indicate high use of informal chunks, connecting chunks, and those containing first person pronouns (e.g. Milton, 1999). This study …