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The purposes of this corpus-driven study were to compare the use of four-word lexical bundles between native English and Thai dissertation writings. Two language corpora, roughly 1,000,000 words apiece, were gathered from dissertations in the field of Eng... see more

English is widely known as a language containing a number of near-synonyms, i.e. words with similar meaning, and therefore English learners are often confronted with difficulty in the use of near-synonyms in different contexts. This corpus-informed study ... see more

This study investigated three synonymous verbs, teach, educate, and instruct, in terms of their collocational patterns and distribution across genres. Data were drawn from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (2021) and the Corpus of Contemporar... see more

Appropriate use of near-synonyms in English often poses difficulty for learners. This study aims to compare and contrast the near-synonyms predict and foresee, focusing on genres, collocations, colligations, and semantic prosody which specifically charact... see more

This study investigates the get-passive in American English, with emphasis on its distribution in different text types and its semantic features characterized by co-occurring verbs. The data was drawn from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA... see more

Knowledge of specialized academic vocabulary is important for the academic success of EFL natural science students. Specialized words outside the General Service List (GSL) (West, 1953) and the Academic Word List (AWL) (Coxhead, 2000) are necessary for co... see more

The present study is aimed at examining the compliment responses (CRs) used by Thai EFL learners. It has been discovered from the discourse completion tasks (DCTs) that the learners’ level of English proficiency seemed to determine how they responded to c... see more

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