this study focused on the effect of teaching collocations on the awareness of two affective dimensions, evaluation and potency dimensions, of deep vocabulary knowledge as well as the general vocabulary knowledge of efl students. sixty intermediate efl female adult learners participated in this study; they were chosen among 90 students through the pet and a general vocabulary knowledge test. the...

'l?his paper 1)rovidcs an at)l)roa(:h to tim semi-aul;onmtic exl;i'action of (:ollocaIJons f lom eorl)ora using sl;atisti(:s. The growing availability of lm'ge textual cort)ora, and the in(:reasing number of applications of colloeal;ion extra(:tion, has given risc~ 1;o wu.ious apt)roaches on the I;opi(:. In l;his palter, we address the probl(;m of 'ne,stcd collocrd, ions; thai, is, those being ...

In this paper, we introduce a system, Sentence Planning Using Description, which generates collocations within the paradigm of sentence planning. SPUD simultaneously constructs the semantics and syntax of a sentence using a Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG). This approach captures naturally and elegantly the interaction between pragmatic and syntactic constraints on descriptions in a se...

We present a proposal for the structuring of collocation knowledge 1 in the lexicon of a multilingual generation system and show to what extent it can be used in the process of lexical selection. This proposal is part of Polygloss, a new research project on multilingual generation, and it has been inspired by work carried out in the S EMSYN project (see e.g. [I~(~SNEtt 198812). The descriptive ...

When learning English words, it is useful to also learn the words they often occur with .This combination of words that work together is known under the name of collocation. Learning collocations is an important part of acquiring the vocabulary of a language. A collocation refers to clusters of words that often go together throughout written and spoken English and form a common expression. An u...

Collocations pose specific problems in translation (both human and machine translation). For the native speaker of English it may be obvious that you ’pay attention’, but for a native speaker of Dutch it would have been much simpler if in English people ’donated attention.’ Within an MT system, we can deal with these mismatches in different ways. Simply adding the entry to our bilingual diction...

When vocabulary teaching is taken into account in EFL classes in our Iranian state primary schools, teachers generally prefer to use classical techniques. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of visually-mediated collocations on the elementary EFL learners’ vocabulary learning. In order to conduct this study, 60 students from two classrooms in an elementary class, participate...

There is a profusion of labels used for the phenomenon of multiword units (MU’s), yet they are notoriously underrepresented in handbooks of both grammatical and dictionary type alike. After an illustration of both, problems of criteria which delimit MU’s are raised up, together with an number of open issues and necessity of a functional approach is stressed. As three major issues, stableness, t...