links for EAP teachers
This entry was created in response to a student writing:
Students can gain a substantial encounter with ‘authentic language’
The reusable link https://ske.li/substantial shows that encounter is not one of the nouns commonly modified by substantial. The link looks a bit like this:
Focusing on the verb gain, https://ske.li/gainexperience is a reusable link to a concordance which looks like this:
Created by Elena Mazzeri
This link was created in response to a student writing:
e-resources promote democratization in the education sector by accessing it to all
The verb access is not right in this context, because it is not a “dative” verb (i.e. like give). The reusable link is https://ske.li/access_to and it looks like this:
Created by Elena Mazzeri
This link was created in response to this:
it would be easier to end up with the issue
The re-usable link is https://ske.li/addressissue and looks like this:
Of course, it is possible that this student meant the opposite, in which case this reusable link may help https://ske.li/avoidissue:
Another way of raising the awareness of which verbs usually occur with issue and problem is to look at verb collocates. The reusable link is https://ske.li/solve_prob and it looks like this:
Quite often in with these verbs we find it is solve/address this problem/issue rather than the problem/issue. Thus, this link might also be useful https://ske.li/solve_problem . It looks like this:
The corresponding collocation list (verbs before this problem/issue) can be found here https://ske.li/v_this_problem. It looks like this:
