Irina Elgort

A residual-based approach to assessing conditional over- and under-representation of multiword expressions across phrase types

The present study introduces a residual-based approach for measuring the conditional over- and under-representation of two-word multiword expressions (MWEs) in language use. Using the British National Corpus, we model the expected frequency of an MWE from its constituent-word fre...

On the Effects of Spaced Versus Massed Practice on Deliberate Learning of English Idioms across L2 Proficiency Levels

This study investigated the effects of spaced versus massed practice on the deliberate learning of English opaque idioms across different second language (L2) proficiency levels. A total of 199 Iranian EFL learners at different proficiency levels were taught 40 opaque idioms unde...