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

Ed Thomas

doi:10.1515/icame-2015-0004

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

ICAME Journal

Volume 39 (2015): Issue 1 (March 2015)

By: Ed Thomas

Open Access

|Apr 2015

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.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/icame-2015-0004 | Journal eISSN: 1502-5462 | Journal ISSN: 0801-5775

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