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Improved collocation Collocations, or words that frequently occur together, have become a key component in both applied linguistics research and language teaching since automated corpus Read More

Sonorous mellifluous words Everyone has words they like and words they hate. Often these reactions to words are based on their meanings, but we also Read More

Chains of associations Our minds are a network of linked concepts. For instance, when we hear black, we might think of cat, or white, or Read More

Varieties of World Englishes World Englishes have become a vibrant research field in applied linguistics in the last 30 years. Basically, the World Englishes movement Read More

Path sentences garden Garden path sentences are sentences where your initial reading is likely to be wrong, i.e. the sentence leads you down the garden Read More

Perplexitaal 1: Can you guess the text from the keywords? Keyword analysis has become a widely used tool in applied linguistics since it is relatively Read More