the significance of evaluating

This entry was created in response to a student writing:

Recent research has highlighted the significance of evaluating Padlet’s role in education

Significance does not seem right here because what is being evaluated is a future need rather than a result. The link https://ske.li/evaluating provides a few suitable alternatives with the intended meaning, and it looks like this:

Another link here https://ske.li/stress_need shows a wider range of verbs and it looks like this:

To compare with the typical use of significance you could use the link https://ske.li/significance_of, which looks like this:

Created by Elena Mazzeri

utter English

This link was created in response to a student writing:

typical phonology problems appear when Chinese learners utter English

This isn’t necessarily a very frequent error in itself but is arguably linked to other verbs used for describing speaking/talking and difficulties choosing the right collocation. The reusable link is https://ske.li/utter_nn and it looks like this: