Phraseological competence in IELTS academic writing task 2: phraseological units and test-takers’ perceptions and use

Abstract This study intended to explore the different types of phraseological units in IELTS academic writing task 2 and probe into the IELTS candidates’ perceptions of phraseological competence. To this end, a corpus entailing 100 essays (26,423 words) written for IELTS writing task 2 was scrutiniz...

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Published in:Language Testing in Asia
Main Authors: Masoomeh Estaji, Mina Hashemi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-09-01
Subjects:
IELTS academic writing
Phraseological competence
Phraseological units
Test-takers’ perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40468-022-00180-7

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s40468-022-00180-7

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