Second Language Collocation Acquisition : Challenges for Learners and Pedagogical Insights from Empirical Research

Supasiraprapa, Sarut

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“…Learner difficulty with collocations partly arises because they are "a type of formulaic expression made of strongly associated pairs of words characterized by restricted substitutability", (Bestgen, 2017, p. 67), as in the following examples: "make a mistake" vs. "*do a mistake", "strong tea" vs. "*powerful tea", and "heavy drinker" vs. "*extravagant drinker" (Supasiraprapa, 2018). This makes it more difficult for learners to acquire collocations as they have to differentiate the collocational restrictions and use the right combinations.…”

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Association of lexical and collocation knowledge: A comparative analysis of native speakers and nonnative learners of English

Kim,

Shin,

Kim

2024

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To provide a comprehensive estimate of Korean college students’ lexical competence, this study compared L2 learners’ (EFL) use of single words and collocations with that of native speakers (NSs). The study compiled two text corpora, one from an existing native corpus and the other with texts from Korean EFL learners at three proficiency levels. There were significant differences between the two corpora in lexical diversity, although the difference between advanced EFL learners and NSs was non-significant, indicating that advanced learners were on par with NSs in terms of using a diverse range of words. In a comparison of lexical distribution of single words, however, these advanced learners were found to use words between the 1K and 4K level, whereas NSs used words beyond this level. This suggests the need to cover a wider range of words in classroom teaching and assessment. Regarding collocational knowledge, the difference between the NSs and EFL group was apparent and statistically significant, regardless of learners’ proficiency levels. Namely, EFL learners used far fewer collocations in a smaller range than their counterparts. The learners’ limited collocational competence indicates that collocations should be considered an integral component of the curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

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Association of lexical and collocation knowledge: A comparative analysis of native speakers and nonnative learners of English

Kim,

Shin,

Kim

2024

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A Multiword Unit Analysis : COCA Multiword Unit List 20 and ColloGram

Shin

Chon

2019

The Journal of AsiaTEFL

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Multiword units receive attention as being an essential part of vocabulary knowledge that will expedite the learning of an L2. However, there is lack of a graded multiword units (MWU) list that can offer direct applications for pedagogy, syllabus design or materials development. The current article aims to report on the development and evaluation of COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English) Multiword Unit 20 (COCA_MWU20) where the notion of MWU family is adopted. The compilation involved selecting and grading the MWU by grammatical well-formedness, range, and frequency. The 10,000 MWU families which made up the list were utilized in the development of ColloGram, a list-based MWU family analysis program. The COCA_MWU20 can be expected to help L2 learners increase their knowledge of lexical items beyond single words and ColloGram is the first of the kind that can analyze multiword items based on COCA. For researchers, the ColloGram can also be a tool for identifying MWU that may appear in a target text.

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Second Language Collocation Acquisition : Challenges for Learners and Pedagogical Insights from Empirical Research

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Association of lexical and collocation knowledge: A comparative analysis of native speakers and nonnative learners of English

Association of lexical and collocation knowledge: A comparative analysis of native speakers and nonnative learners of English

A Multiword Unit Analysis : COCA Multiword Unit List 20 and ColloGram

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