Based on two corpora: LOCNESS (Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays) and MLC (Non-English major Mainland Chinese Learner Corpus), this book explores the gram

Collocation is an important tool in describing lexical behaviour in language and has received increasing attention in recent years. Based on two corpora: LOCNES

This book highlights research that expands on our knowledge of second- language collocation acquisition. It presents original findings based on the largest coll

Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first t

This book explores language ideologies in China, which encounters the unprecedented global spread of English as a lingua franca, against the backdrop of globali