English language students’ productive and receptive knowledge of collocations by Begagić Mirna

“…This can be due to the fact that collocations of the language students are learning are interfering with the collocations of their mother tongue, but also due to the way students are taught English (vocabulary negligence in comparison with grammar and unawareness of the importance of collocations in language learning).…”
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“Talking heads” in Portuguese sign and spoken languages by Marisa Cruz, Sónia Frota

“…In LGP, the head amplitude is larger than in the spoken modality, and the shape of the head movement varies across sentence types, thus showing the primary role of this visual cue in LGP prosodic grammar. In spoken Portuguese, although the head amplitude also differs between sentence types, the shape of the movement over time is always the same (falling), thus pointing to a secondary/complementary role in spoken Portuguese.…”
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A Critique on the Book “The Mixed Method Research” by Mustafa Hamadani

“…The researcher criticizes this book for such mistakes as (1) wrong book title, (2) weakness in concept extraction of mixed methods, (3) unpleasant book structure and  inexpressive section headings, (4) long paragraph, (5) spelling, grammar, and editing mistakes, (6) numerous quotations from other sources without reference, (7)  some irrational section headings that are not consistent with the contents, (8) use of ambiguous terms, (9) incorrect graph drawing and numerous problems in their graphic indications, (10) weakness in explaining and proving paradigmatic foundation of mixed methods, and, lastly, (11) introducing the work as authored book while it is translated-authored work.…”
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Ictiosis laminar: presentación de un caso by Rubén Pérez Armas

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Integrative Teaching Strategy for Developing Writing Skills in Non-Linguistics Master Students by E. A. Komochkina, L. V. Yarotskaya

“…The paper also focuses on some ways of implementing the strategy relative to the integration of traditional and online teaching of master students through their investigating specialist discourse elements, identifying formulaic expressions and grammar patterns with a view to using them in their profession-related discourse, learning to rely on those findings in producing a coherent text, and thus, developing their capacity to write clearly and effectively.…”
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Potentials of 24-hour esophageal рН monitoring in diagnostics and treatment efficacy control of gastroesophageal reflux disease by N. L. Dzhakhaya, A. S. Trukhmanov, M. Yu. Kon’kov, O. A. Sklyanskaya, A. A. Sheptulin, V. T. Ivashkin

“…At analysis of the first рН-gramm parameter (total reflux number) it was found, that average number of episodes was highest at erosive esophagitis of I stage. …”
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Families’ opinions about their involvement in care during hospitalization: a mixed-methods study by Josien M. Woldring, Wolter Paans, Reinold O. B. Gans, Hinke M. van der Werf, Marie Louise Luttik

“…The study adhered to the guidelines of the Good Reporting of A Mixed Method Study (GRAMMS). Results The questionnaire scores indicate a high willingness for involvement in care during hospitalization. …”
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La construcción automática de las marcas predicativas de los verbos de movimiento a partir del Diccionario del Español Actual. by Juan Carlos Periñán Pascual

“… Functional Grammar Workbeneh (FGW) se concibe como un laboratorio virtual de ingeniería lingüística dentro del marco de la Gramática Funcional de Simon C. …”
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Risques d’inégalités liés à certaines caractéristiques des manuels contemporains de langues modernes en Belgique francophone by Germain Simons, Daniel Delbrassine, Florence Van Hoof

“…Results show that they share the following features: the drafting language of the textbook, the length and density of the units, the units’ heterogeneous and composite nature, the inductive and “spiral” approach to grammar explanations, the lack of open-ended exercises preparing students for the complex final task, to name a few. …”
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Interactions langagières d’élèves de 11-12 ans lors de la rédaction d’un récit en dyade et leur influence sur le texte by Jessy Marin, Natalie Lavoie

“…A text written individually was compared to a text written in pairs using various criteria (storyline, vocabulary, ponctuation, syntax, spelling and grammar). During the writing in pairs, students were filmed and interventions were organized into two categories (interventions concerning the text and other interventions). …”
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Corpus literacy empowerment: taking stock of research to look forward for practice by Li Shuquan, Xu Manfei

“…This paper also offers detailed instructions on how to facilitate the teaching of vocabulary, grammar and discourse with free and user-friendly corpus tools (i.e., SKELL, VersaText and AntConc) in pre-tertiary language classrooms. …”
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An Analysis of Salimiś Criticism and Critics in Arabic Literature by Ali Bayanlou

“…The related flaws include simple covering design, typing mistakes, poor grammar, spelling mistakes, and poor eloquence. In terms of content, the advantages are good table of contents, impartiality, accordance with Islamic principles, and the sciences curriculum. …”
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A New Rule-Based Approach for Classical Arabic in Natural Language Processing by Ramzi Salah, Muaadh Mukred, Lailatul Qadri binti Zakaria, Rashad Ahmed, Hasan Sari

“…It improved their performance and allowed for automated rule updates. The grammar rules, gazetteers, blacklist, patterns, and trigger words were all integrated into the rule-based system in this way.…”
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Teachers’ and Students’ Reflection on the Problem of Writing Narrative Text in a Remote Area (Flores Island) by Darmawan Labira

“…The finding indicated grammatical aspect as the biggest student’s problem (25 errors), the mechanic aspect of writing revealed 24 errors, 23 errors in vocabulary aspect, writing content revealed 20 errors, writing organization revealed 20 errors. …”
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Developing Supplementary Materials for Reading Skill by Using Local Wisdom by Yayu Anggraini H. Katili

“…By using Research and Development Method, the results of this study show that 1) students need materials which were related to decription of tourism objects, warning about cleanliness and the local story. 2) Students preffer to read text which consisted of 200-300 words. 3) Students want to answer 5 W + 1 H questions and True False questions in reading activities. 4) Students want to match the vocabularies with the pictures in vocabulary building activity. 5) Students want to fill in the blank sentences in Grammar activity. 6) Students want to work in group and the teacher should help them when they had a problem in the classroom. …”
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WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK ON EFL STUDENTS AT AN ISLAMIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL by Eka Mareta Suharyanti, Endang Fauziati

“…The most important advantage of obtaining corrective feedback for the students is to understand the use of grammar in making a sentence. This study concluded that the motivation of the students to write recount text was to get teacher corrective feedback to be able to write the appropriate sentence and to increase their ability in writing English. …”
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A Critical Review of Metaphor by Ramin Golshaie

“…On the other hand, the existence of typographical errors, use of inaccurate equivalents, inconsistent use of equivalents, insufficient command of the source language grammar, and distortion of metaphors during the process of translation are the drawbacks of the book. …”
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The use of English abbreviations on WhatsApp amongst university students in Zimbabwe by Clemenciana Mukenge

“…The findings reveal that while abbreviations facilitate efficient communication and social cohesion, they also simplify language, reduce vocabulary development and grammatical accuracy, and blur the distinction between formal and informal communication, potentially eroding formal language skills, particularly for non-native English speakers. …”
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Identify the Message of Ursula Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk From Omelas though Its Thematic Structure by Putri Ayu Rezkiyana

“…This study is under the Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) focusing on the textual metafunction. …”
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Institutions, Voids, and Dependencies: Tracing the Designs and Robustness of Urban Water Systems by Aaron Deslatte, Elizabeth A. Koebele, Lauren Bartels, Adam Wiechman, Sara Alonso Vicario, Celeste Coughlin, Desi Rybolt

“…We utilize process-tracing along with an institutional analysis approach called the Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT) to parse formal institutions into their semantic and syntactic components and assess how they may influence a system’s capacity to respond to changing stressors. …”
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