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I am currently devising a questionnaire for an interrater agreement analysis of essays written by students at my university. Each essay is examined by two raters, who answer a series of questions....
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As part of my justification for using form-focused activites to help learners to acquire some and any-the subject of my PhD- I am critiquing Krashen's claim that there is a non-interface, or at...
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And what classroom and self-study tasks would you recommend to deal with these challenges? I would appreciate answers that deal with any of the following areas: - Different rhetorical patterns and...
26 December 2017 2,001 2 View
If political correctness is understood as the need to avoid comments which offend, exclude or marginalise groups within society, or to depart from a prejudiced viewpoint of these collectives, then...
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I am trying to apply a number of statistical measures to my corpus research into some and any. The main measures I am applying are: 1) Measures such as T-score and MI score to produce reliable...
07 January 2016 2,764 2 View
I have become very interested in the complementation patterns of adjectives as my students make a number of errors in this area. I am particularly interested in adjective patterns containing...
06 November 2015 3,462 5 View
And which grammar books do you use to teach it? I am directing this question at both TESOL and TEFL teachers. I expect the former to give quite different answers to the latter.
14 October 2015 3,506 3 View
My initial idea is to conduct error analysis research into "some" and "any" as follows: 1) I will use learner corpora to determine the errors which learners make with these words at different...
09 October 2015 9,817 17 View
I am carrying out research into "some" and "any" using the OEC, which I access via Sketch Engine. Many of my searches into specific patterns with "some" and "any" produce far too many results for...
29 September 2015 3,944 4 View