links for EAP teachers
This link was created in response to a student writing:
Mardani (2016) accentuates that markedness is used in linguistics to describe how words are changed to create a special meaning.
“Accentuate” is not the right verb here. A concordance of possible verbs is provided at the reusable link https://ske.li/wwx and it looks like this:
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One of these methods, called post-activation potentiation (PAP) results in acute improvements in muscle power and performance in subsequent explosive activities
“Acute” does not seem to be the right adjective here. It may help to provide a concordance of possible adjectives that fit the meaning of the instance above, as in the reusable link https://ske.li/adj_improvements, which looks a bit like this:
Students might also benefit from investigating which adjectives commonly modify “improvement” through the link https://ske.li/adj_improvement_freq, which looks like this:
Created by Elena Mazzeri
This link was created in response to a student writing:
this concept is just beginning to grab the attention of many educators and stakeholders
Grab is not usually found in concordance with attention in academic writing. The link https://ske.li/grab_the_attention provides a few alternative verbs with similar meanings:
Created by Elena Mazzeri