WHAT ENGLISH COLLOCATIONS TO TEACH FIRST TO INDONESIAN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN? A MINI-CORPUS BASED RESEARCH OF INDONESIAN CHILDREN'S STORYBOOKS

Abstract: Frequent content words in a mini-corpus of 131 Indonesian children’s storybooks, which resulted in a corpus of 134, 320 words, were investigated. The result was used to identify what English collocations to teach first to Indonesian preschool children. The data were run through a collocati...

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Main Author: Maryani Maryani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia 2012-01-01
Series:Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics
Online Access:http://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/IJAL/article/view/87