Collocation is an aspect of language generally considered arbitrary by nature and problematic to L2 learners who need collocational competence for effective communication. This study attempts, from the perspective of L2 learners, to have a deeper understanding of collocational use and some of the problems involved, by adopting a task based approach, using two highly comparable corpora based on ...

Abstract This study examined the development of automaticity in processing L2 collocations, and roles L1 collocational knowledge practice conditions process. Korean learners English were assigned to one two (practice identical or varied contexts). The learning gains for word combinations with without equivalent counterparts (L1-only L2-only collocations) assessed using response times (RTs) coef...

the present study aims at investigating the effect of different levels of lexical collocational density on efl learners’ reading comprehension. eighty sophomore students with different levels of proficiency studying at  zand institute of higher education in shiraz, iran were chosen from among eighty five learners based on their score distribution on a reduced toefl test constructed by education...

This paper provides an insight into ongoing research focusing on the exploitation of data from learner corpus in order to enhance the performance of an automatic tool aimed at the correction of collocation errors of L2 Spanish speakers. The procedure adopted for collocation annotation is described together with the main difficulties involved in the annotation task, such as the problem of distin...

Collocation is an often-neglected language form that foreign teachers and students should focus on to achieve competence in a target language. In this research, the researchers studied purposely facilitate both second produce correct appropriate collocations. The purposes of research were 1) study collocation error levels Bachelor Arts English Business studying at Northern Rajabhat University, ...

This study investigated the relationship between teaching L2 semantic tasks (collocation vs. definition) in vocabulary achievement of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. To this end, 60 students at intermediate level studying in the Simin Institute were selected from a total number of 100 participants based on their performance on Oxford Placement Test. After ensuring the criterion of homogeneit...

In this paper, the Chebychev spectral collocation method is applied for the thermal analysis of convective-radiative straight fins with the temperature-dependent thermal conductivity. The developed heat transfer model was used to analyse the thermal performance, establish the optimum thermal design parameters, and also, investigate the effects of thermo-geometric parameters and thermal conducti...

Word association responses in fi rst-language (L1) Spanish and secondlanguage (L2) English were investigated by means of response latencies and types of associative response produced. The primary aims were to establish whether (a) some response types are produced more often or faster than others, (b) participants’ L2 response time profi les mirror those of their L1, and (c) participants’ L2 ass...