The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations

Benson, Morton; Benson, Evelyn; Ilson, Robert F.; Young, Richard A.

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“…Aisenstadt (1981) suggested similar classification but he divided the collocation composed of verb + noun into two more detailed ones: verb + noun (make a decision) and verb + preposition + noun (come to a decision). Benson et al (1997) also postulated the incorporation of prepositions into English collocations and added the following combinations to the Hausamann's classification: noun + preposition (interest in), preposition + noun (on de-Using Memrise in Legal English Teaching mand) and adjective + preposition (worth of), which constitute the so called grammatical collocations.…”

Section: Collocations In Foreign Language Teachingmentioning

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Using Memrise in Legal English Teaching

Łuczak

2017

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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Abstract.Memrise is an educational tool available both online and for mobile devices. Memrise uses flashcards and mnemonic techniques to aid in teaching foreign languages and memorizing information from other subjects, e.g. geography, law or mathematics. Memrise courses are created by its users through the process of crowdsourcing; therefore they are tailored to the individual needs of the users and may focus on the specific content of a particular coursebook or classes.The paper will attempt to present possibilities of using memrise in teaching and learning legal English vocabulary during a tertiary course leading to TOLES (Test of Legal English Skills) certificate examination. The paper will look at various types of exercises which facilitate memorizing vocabulary, learning collocations, prepositional phrases, develop the skill of paraphrasing and defining legal terms of art in plain English. Application of the crowdsourcing method enables the learners to participate in the process of the course creation and constitutes for them a supplementary, out of class exposure to the target language.The second part of the paper will discuss the results of the research conducted by the author among her law students. The aim of the research was to investigate the students' opinions about memrise as a tool which might facilitate individual learning of the specialist language, as well as to assess whether memrise may influence the test results achieved by the students during the legal English course. The paper will contrastively analyse the progress tests results achieved by the students who have used memrise to revise and recycle language material and those who have chosen traditional (non-mobile) methods of learning. The research also attempted to address the question whether the students who had been the contributors to the content of memrise courses had performed better in tests than those who had only been the users.

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Section: Collocations In Foreign Language Teachingmentioning

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Using Memrise in Legal English Teaching

Łuczak

2017

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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“…The correct and incorrect lexical collocations w ere listed (Appendixes A and B). Then the types of lexical collocations w ere determined according to Benson (1997) It is w orth mentioning that the essays, term papers, and compositions examined in this study w ere w ritten as part of participants" w riting activities, thus the language they produced w as linguistically natural.…”

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“…They follow certain structural patterns. Benson et al (1997) classify restricted collocations into two categories: grammatical and lexical.…”

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The nature of lexical collocational errors committed by advanced Iranian learners of English

Shiri¹,

Sadighi²,

Azizi³

et al. 2017

J. Lang. Cult.

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Collocations are among the pervasive features of languages, and English seems to be particularly rich in such multi-word lexemes. Since they have not received due attention pedagogically, this research aimed at identifying problems facing advanced Iranian learners of English in producing collocations. Over 100 pages of materials written by 30 participants were carefully studied and a list of lexical collocations was extracted. The list was then analyzed and different types of correct and incorrect lexical collocations were determined. Results showed that Iranian advanced learners of English do have serious problems with English collocations. The problematic collocations were identified and assigned to six types of collocations. The most problematic type was Adjective + Noun combinations and the least problematic ones were those of Adverb + Adjective and Noun +of + Noun. The results of the study can have theoretical and pedagogical implications for syllabus designers, translators, material writers and, of course, teachers of the English language.

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“…Lewis (2000) shed light on the two categories of lexical and grammatical collocations defining that lexical collocations appear in the form of the combination of two equal lexical components whereas grammatical collocations are the combination of a lexical word, usually a noun, a verb or an adjective along with a grammatical word. In addition, Benson, Benson and Lison's (1997) classification of lexical collocations falls intothe specific categories of Verb + Noun, Adjective + Noun, Noun + Verb, Noun + Noun, Adverb + Adjective, and Verb + Adverb.…”

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A Comparative Study on the Effect of Contrived vs. Authentic Texts on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ Lexical Collocations Learning

Shabani

Heidar²

2016

JSE

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The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of two models of texts (contrived versus authentic texts) on Iranianintermediate EFL learners' lexical collocation learning.The participants were sixtystudents majoring in English. They were students in the second semester of academic year 2015 who were selected through a proficiency test titled Comprehensive English Language Test (CELT),administered at the commencement of the study, the result of which showed that the two groups were homogeneous in terms of their language proficiency.They were divided into two equal comparison groups: The Authentic Text group (AT)and Contrived Text group (CT), either of which included thirty ones. The quantitative data on the participants' knowledge on lexical collocations were collected using a pre-planned pretest on lexical collocation, comprising forty multiple-choice-items. The pretest on lexical collocation went through a pilot study. The same version of the test of lexical collocation, with the rearrangement of some items, was administered to the both comparison groups after the completion of the treatment period for the AT group and placebo for the CT group. The analysis of the quantitative data was done using Independent Samples T-test and paired-samples T-test. The results of the Paired-samples T-test and Independent Samples T-test indicated that the AT group was significantly different from the control group; in other words, the AT group outperformed the CT group. Pedagogical implications and suggestions for further research were included as well.

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The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations

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Using Memrise in Legal English Teaching

Using Memrise in Legal English Teaching

The nature of lexical collocational errors committed by advanced Iranian learners of English

A Comparative Study on the Effect of Contrived vs. Authentic Texts on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ Lexical Collocations Learning

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