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Language Acquisition: Morning Now and Other Weird Collocations

by Stephen Greene

My son is approaching 3 years of age and he is developing both his English and Portugese at an amazing rate. His language, though, sounds very strange, some people call it cute, and this is partly because he is being exposed to two languages at the same time and partly because he is still only 2...Read More

Lexical Mathematics 1: Flesh + Bones = Added Bonus

24 de março de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

It is widely known that some approaches to teaching in the past consciously placed vocabulary as a secondary feature of language. In other words, one was made to think of grammar as the bones of the language whilst vocabulary as the flesh to be added. However, Harmer (1997) has a point when he states that...Read More

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