Word frequency and collocation: Using children’s literature in adult learning
| Mar 31, 2015
Published Online: Mar 31, 2015
Page range: 85 - 110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/icame-2015-0004
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This study involved the creation of a corpus of children’s literature spanning 5.5 million words. Using concordance software, the corpus was able to show the most frequent words and collocations. These will be of interest both to literary researchers in the genre of children’s literature and also teachers and applied linguists working with adult students of English.