Extracting multiword expressions from texts with the aid of online resources

This article reports on a classroom intervention where L2 learners were prompted to look for multiword expressions in texts. The participants were two intact classes of Vietnamese learners of English as a foreign language. Over a period of eight weeks, the experimental group ( n = 26) looked for expressions in texts, while the comparison group ( n = 28) used the same texts for content-related activities. In pairs, students in the experimental...