<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This study involved the creation of a corpus of children’s literature spanning 5.5 million words. Using concordance software, the corpus was able to show the most frequent words and collocations. These will be of interest both to literary researchers in the genre of children’s literature and also teachers and applied linguists working with adult students of English.</p></abstract>

This study involved the creation of a corpus of children’s literature spanning 5.5 million words. Using concordance software, the corpus was able to show the most frequent words and collocations. These will be of interest both to literary researchers in the genre of children’s literature and also teachers and applied linguists working with adult students of English.

Word frequency and collocation: Using children’s literature in adult learning

Kanda University of International Studies, Japan

ICAME Journal

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This study involved the creation of a corpus of children’s literature spanning 5.5 million words. Using concordance software, the corpus was able to show the...

Word frequency and collocation: Using children’s literature in adult learning

Data publikacji: 01 kwi 2015

Zakres stron: 85 - 110

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/icame-2015-0004

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