12.2223, Qs: Scientometrics of LINGUIST/English Idioms

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-12-2223. Wed Sep 12 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 12.2223, Qs: Scientometrics of LINGUIST/English Idioms

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Date:  Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:49:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:  Victor Kuperman <victor_list at yahoo.com>
Subject:  Scientometrics of the LINGUIST

2)
Date:  Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:45:58 +0800
From:  "Thomas-Fuyin-LI" <s992830 at mailserv.cuhk.edu.hk>
Subject:  acquire/learn/teach English idioms and proverbs

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Date:  Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:49:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:  Victor Kuperman <victor_list at yahoo.com>
Subject:  Scientometrics of the LINGUIST

	
Dear LINGUIST subscribers,
	
I am an MA student at the Graduate School for Library
and Information Studies, the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. I am currently involved in scientometric
research of contributors' productivity in the
Internet mailing lists. One of the major factors that
allegedly shape scholars' productivity is the reward
structure of modern science. Thus, scholars are said
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Thank you,
Victor Kuperman.


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Date:  Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:45:58 +0800
From:  "Thomas-Fuyin-LI" <s992830 at mailserv.cuhk.edu.hk>
Subject:  acquire/learn/teach English idioms and proverbs

Dear All
I have been working on a thesis which partly is about how to systematically
acquire/learn/teach English idioms and proverbs to ESL/EFL learners, I found
related literature is rare. If any of you knows something about this topic,
could you kindly give me some references, I'll post a summary when I have
enough.

Thanks in advance.

Thomas Li
thomasli at cuhk.edu.hk
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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