Collocations are one of the areas generally considered problematic for EFL learners. Iranian learners of English like other EFL learners face various problems in producing oral collocations.  An analysis of learners' spoken interlanguage both indicates the scope of the problem and the necessity to spend more time and energy by learners on mastering collocations. The present study specifically f...

Lewis (1993) recognized significance of word combinations including collocations by presenting lexical approach. Because of the crucial role of collocation in vocabulary acquisition, this research set out to evaluate the rate of collocations in Iranian EFL learners' writing production across L1 and L2. In addition, L1 interference with L2 collocational use in the learner' writing samples was st...

Much interest has recently been directed toward the knowledge of collocations in the field of second language learning since they have been asserted to improve fluency. The current study was intended to examine the effect of verbal and visuospatial working memory spans on the processing of collocations using a Self-Pace Reading Task (SPRT) and relevant working memory tasks. To this end, partici...

in different linguistic studies, usually only one type of collocations has been investigated and in the classifications that have been introduced for different types of collocations, just formal and grammatical properties of the words within collocations have been mentioned. this study, for the first time, introduces eight criteria such as pivot word, feature percolation and separability for de...

In this paper, we propose a new approach to identify unknown words in Chinese. This approach adopts an n-grams program to sort out the collocating word / character sequences which are possible words and phrases in Chinese. In addition to proposing the criteria for identifying Chinese new words, was also classify these new words according to their structural and semantic characteristics. The cor...

With the renewed interest in the field of second language learning for the knowledge of collocating words, research findings in favour of holistic processing of formulaic language could support the idea that these language units facilitate efficient language processing. This study investigated the difference between processing of a first language (L1) and a second language (L2) of congruent col...

the literature on collocations ive do nor find any clear suggestion on how to predict which collocations n,ay be more problematic for the translators and fl tcarners. this article attempts to categorize collocations in six types regardless of their syntactic patterns. front syntactic point of vie1v, this study is limited to adj + n and n + n structures, whiclt contain the most con1n1on collocat...