The importance of collocations for success in language learning is widely recognized. Concordancers, originally designed for linguists, are among the most popular tools for students to obtain, organize, and study collocations derived from corpora. This paper describes the design and development...

Online International Learning (OIL) helps to integrate soft skills into the academic curriculum, as well as providing students with international interaction opportunities. In this article, we evaluate the extent to which telecollaborative writing tasks between UK-based (mostly Chinese) and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of what a good grabber is and how to construct one. This is done by drawing on the insights provided by Professor Timothy L. Wilson, for whom this paper is written as an “honorary piece.” Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to set out guidelines to de‐mystify the publication process and increase opportunities for successful publication. Design/methodology/approach – An introspective method is employed based upon the author's experience as a reviewer and editor. Findings...

Purpose – The study aims to investigate how and why hedges are used in nursing and education academic research articles and find out whether there are differences between the two disciplines in using hedges and their subcategories. Design/methodology/approach – The realization of hedges in...

Purpose All scholarly writing must straddle the universal and the particular. The universal is commonly addressed in terms of theoretical frameworks and analytical models, supported by the objectivity norm that has guided scientific inquiry since its inception. The particularities, on the other...

According to the WHO, at least 258 million people required preventive treatment for schistosomiasis in 2014. In addition to the major strategy of mass drug administration, other measures are necessary. In the past, Japan had endemic areas of schistosomiasis but it was eradicated. The purpose of...

Artisanal fisheries in Moroccan Mediterranean generally lack management and planning, thus development. Recently, some of these fisheries had received an attention in field of infrastructure, however, there is lake of data on socioeconomic conditions of these fisheries. The main objective of...