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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Collocations"”.
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Using corpora to aid in learning collocations
… collocation problems, learners' knowledge of V-N collocations and learners' perception of the usefulness of corpus tools for solving collocation problems. Three groups of participants were recruited for three treatments: a one-time workshop combined with long-term in-class practices (TG), a …
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Use of Verb-Noun Collocations by Advanced Learners of Chinese
The important role of collocations has been widely accepted in the current literature, but to date there are still relatively few studies on language learners’ collocation knowledge and development within different local contexts. The current study intends to contribute to the literature by …
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The productive and receptive knowledge of collocations by advanced Arabic-speaking ESL/EFL learners
Although it is widely acknowledged that collocations play an important role in the field of second language acquisition, a number of previous studies have reported students' lack of collocational competence and the difficulties they encounter in learning and using collocations. The present study …
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Investigating the Challenges of Translating Arabic Collocations into English with Reference to the Quran
This study examined the extent to which Quranic collocations fit into the general theory of collocation. It explored the importance of demystifying the collocational and phraseological theoretical base in order to facilitate the task of translators to deal more efficiently with collocation and …
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A corpus-based study of academic-collocation use and patterns in postgraduate Computer Science students’ writing
… speakers’ (NNS) use of different types of collocations (e.g., Durrant and Schmitt, 2009; Laufer and Waldman, 2011).These studies have indicated that, unlike NS, NNS rely on a limited set of collocations and tend to overuse them. This raises the question: if NNS tend to overuse a limited set …
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Supporting Collocation Learning
Collocations are of great importance for second language learners. Knowledge of them plays a key role in producing language accurately and fluently. But such knowledge is difficult to acquire, simply because there is so much of it. Collocation resources for learners are limited. Printed …
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A computer-aided error analysis of Saudi students’ written English and an evaluation of the efficacy of using the data- driven learning approach to teach collocations and lexical phrases
… third studies employ the DDL approach to teach collocations and lexical phrases. The errors in the Saudi learner corpus (SLC) were tagged following the Louvain Error Tagging Manual 1.2. The CEA revealed that the ten largest error subcategories were (Form, Spelling), then (Grammar, Verb Tense), …
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Conceptos relacionados con estrella. Lingüística de corpus de astronomía
… frequent vocabularies, specific vocabularies, collocations and relations between lexical units. This requires the use of the software PAFE (Software for Frequency Analysis and Environment Studies) and techniques based on corpus linguistics for detecting specific vocabularies, frequent …
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First and Second Generation New York City Bilinguals: What Is the Role of Input in Their Collocational Knowledge of English and Spanish?
… phenomenon known as <em>collocation</em>. Collocations are word combinations that speakers use recurrently, forming the basis of conventionalized lexical patterns that are shared by a linguistic community. Examples of collocations typically used by speakers of English in the United States …
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The psychological validity of collocation : evidence from event-related brain potentials
… the psychological validity of corpus-derived collocations (e.g. Conklin & Schmitt 2008; McDonald & Shillcock 2003a; 2003b; Underwood et al. 2004; Huang et al. 2012). The results of these studies reveal that sequences of words which form collocations are read more quickly and receive fewer …
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"Do you talk English?": A collocational analysis of "to speak" and "to talk"
… of the keys to unlocking this mystery may lie in collocations, words which have a strong tendency to co occur. The typical model of linguistic competence has included grammar and vocabulary but has not particularly emphasized collocational usage. It is proposed that grammar and lexis alone are …
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Basic writers, oral strategies, and the writing process
… conjunctions, hedges, neuter pronouns, collocations, etc.) -- Features of interaction (personal pronouns, hyperbole, emphatics) -- Textual analysis evaluation -- Comparison of written words, oral features, and essay grades or scores received.
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Basic writers, oral strategies, and the writing process
… conjunctions, hedges, neuter pronouns, collocations, etc.) -- Features of interaction (personal pronouns, hyperbole, emphatics) -- Textual analysis evaluation -- Comparison of written words, oral features, and essay grades or scores received.
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Ideological Collocation in Meta-Wahhabi Discourse Post-911 : A Symbiosis of Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics.
… interpreting and explaining the patterns of collocations in the texts. Contextual information, such as relevant biographical information relating to the text producers, was taken into account. Additionally, a socio-cognitive approach was used to consider ideological coherence and …
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Evaluative meanings and disciplinary values: a corpus-based study of adjective patterns in research articles in applied linguistics and business studies
… found in the patterns themselves, but also on collocations within and around each pattern. The empirical focus of the study will be on two ‘soft-applied’ disciplines (Becher and Trowler 2001), applied linguistics and business studies, as represented by two corpora of research articles drawn …
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An examination of successful language use at B1, B2 and C1 level in UCLanESB speaking tests in accordance with the Common European Framework of References for Languages
… words at B1, B2 and C1 and their notable collocations, colligations and functions? What were the 20 most frequent keywords at B1, B2 and C1 and their notable collocations, colligations and functions? What were the most frequent 3- and 4-word chunks at B1, B2 and C1 and their notable …
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Multi-word Items in Dictionaries from a Translator's Perspective
… and Arabic multi-word items, such as idioms, collocations, phrasal/prepositional verbs, and compounds/iḍāfas. The aforementioned multi-word items are known for their metaphorical meanings and fixed structures, as both characteristics cause confusion to the translator/foreign language learner. …
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An Investigation into Student and Teacher Attitudes towards Pedagogical Translation at Benghazi University
… their grammar and language use of vocabulary and collocations. Moreover, they consider that implementing contrastive analysis in pedagogical translation classes has raised students’ awareness of mother tongue interferences. Furthermore, students and their lecturers believe that several linguistic …
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A corpus-based analysis of adjective suffix rivalry in the english language /
… and factors such as flexibility, frequency and collocations contribute to their predominance. The results of the corpus-based analysis correspond to the findings of the morphological analysis, mainly the predominance of -ical and -able adjectives. The case of adjectives ending in -ive/-ory …
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