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2025. Integrating Bilingualism in Chilean Higher Education for Health Sciences: A Synergy of Problem-Based Learning, Linguistic, and Content Mastery. English Teaching & Learning 49:4 ► pp. 855 ff.
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2025. Second language collocation learning through captioned videos: how do learners’ vocabulary knowledge and working memory affect learning?. Computer Assisted Language Learning► pp. 1 ff.
Aguilar García, María Luisa
2024. Vocabulary acquisition in the language classroom: what it is, how it works, which strategies and approaches are suitable for Latin instruction. Journal of Classics Teaching 25:50 ► pp. 116 ff.
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2024. Image-schema-based-instruction enhanced L2 construction learning with the optimal balance between attention to form and meaning. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 62:4 ► pp. 1561 ff.
2023. Teaching L2 Spanish idioms with semantic motivation: should this be done proactively or retroactively?. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 61:4 ► pp. 1639 ff.
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2023. Metaphor as a cognitive facilitator in L2 vocabulary acquisition. Journal of Language Teaching 3:5 ► pp. 23 ff.
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2022. Incidental Learning of Collocations in an Academic Lecture Through Different Input Modes. Language Learning 72:3 ► pp. 728 ff.
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2022. CL-oriented approaches to teaching phrasal verbs. A report on EFL classroom-based research. HUMAN REVIEW. International Humanities Review / Revista Internacional de Humanidades 11:Monográfico ► pp. 1 ff.
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2022. CL-oriented approaches to teaching phrasal verbs. A report on EFL classroom-based research. HUMAN REVIEW. International Humanities Review / Revista Internacional De Humanidades 12:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
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2022. CL-oriented approaches to teaching phrasal verbs. A report on EFL classroom-based research. HUMAN REVIEW. International Humanities Review / Revista Internacional De Humanidades 12:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
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2022. Chinese Idioms: Stepping Into L2 Student’s Shoes. Acta Linguistica Asiatica 12:1 ► pp. 37 ff.
Ramonda, Kris
2022. A double-edged sword: Metaphor and metonymy through pictures for learning idioms. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 60:3 ► pp. 523 ff.
Stakić, Mirjana & Zvezdan Arsić
2022. Opportunities and challenges in mastering polysemous words and idioms in foreign language learning based on analogous procedures in the native language. Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Pristini 52:3 ► pp. 105 ff.
Webb, Stuart & Anna C.-S. Chang
2022. HOW DOES MODE OF INPUT AFFECT THE INCIDENTAL LEARNING OF COLLOCATIONS?. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 44:1 ► pp. 35 ff.
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2022. Conventional Knowledge, Pictorial Elucidation, Etymological Motivation, and Structural Elaboration in a Thematic Dictionary of Idioms. Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies :31/2 ► pp. 109 ff.
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2021. Situation-bound utterances in Chinese as a foreign language: the effectiveness of the identification task. Chinese as a Second Language Research 10:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
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2021. Developing conceptual metaphor–based tasks in the teaching and learning of idiomatic expressions. TESOL Journal 12:2
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Stengers, Hélène, Julie Deconinck, Frank Boers & June Eyckmans
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Boers, Frank & Seth Lindstromberg
2012. Experimental and Intervention Studies on Formulaic Sequences in a Second Language. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 32 ► pp. 83 ff.
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Boers, Frank, Ana María Piquer Píriz, Hélène Stengers & June Eyckmans
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