Birds of a Feather Don't Always Flock Together: User Problems in Identifying Headwords in Online English Learner's Dictionaries

Idioms, sayings and proverbs (referred to here as 'phrasemes'), are a central part of the English language. However, it is often difficult for learners of English as an Additional Lan­guage (EAL) to choose the correct headword when looking for such expressions in a dictionary. Learn­ers ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Julia Miller
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WAT 2013-12-01
Series:Lexikos
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Online Access:https://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1215