Tag: corpusling
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Từ nào “quan trọng nhất”: Chief, Main, Major, Primary hay Principal?
Có bao giờ bạn thấy 5 tính từ chief, main, major, primary hay principal không được dùng giống nhau 100% nhưng định nghĩa trên các từ điển lại khá tương đồng? Hôm nay, để làm rõ sự khác biệt và giống nhau giữa các từ này, hãy cùng đọc một nghiên cứu đến từ tác…
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Critical Review: “Hedging in the Results and Discussion Section of English Applied Linguistics Research Articles by Vietnamese and Foreign Writers” (Tran & Tang, 2022)
Academic writing is a genre that requires the impersonal presentation of facts, showing evidence and constructing knowledge objectively and effectively (Hyland, 1994). This notion has positioned hedging as a vital part of academic discourse. The starting point of hedges as a linguistic term is normally attributed to the work of Lakoff (1973), associating hedges with “fuzziness” or…
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Easy Self-study: Contextualized Vocabulary Learning with Dictionaries, Corpora, and More
Before you read: The below lead-in contains a lot of vocabulary items for a challenge at the end of the blog. At the moment, ignore the unfamiliar words and phrases (if you have). Go back when I tell you to do so. As a non-native English speaker and a newbie EFL teacher, I am no…
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Welcoming the Approaching Festive Season: A Corpus-Based Investigation of “Xuân” Clusters in Vietnamese Tết Music
Vietnam, together with many other Asian countries, is culturally well-known for their celebrations on the occasion of Lunar New Year, or Tết. This time is long believed to be a fresh start for an incredible new journey. Tết is also a public holiday in Vietnam, when most services are closed and people come back home…