Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Collocations: Digging for Language Nuggets
By Ela Newman
Instructor in Developmental Writing and in ESL
University of Texas at Brownsville
newjgea@aol.com
As a teenaged language learner I did not see much point in spending most of my pocket money on a monolingual English dictionary. “It’s all in English” I reasoned, questioning the usefulness of definitions written in the language of the headwords. It seemed circular and otherworldly to me.
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