Collocation has been considered a problematic area for L2 learners. Various studies have been conducted to investigate native speakers‘ (NS) and non-native 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 ...

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...

Abstract We describe tools for the extraction of collocations not only in the form of word combinations, but also of data about the morphosyntactic properties of collocation candidates. Such data are needed for a detailed lexical description of collocations, and to support both their recognition in text and the generation of collocationally acceptable text. We describe the tool architecture, re...

To date, substantial efforts have been devoted to the extraction of collocations from text corpora. However, only a few works deal with the subsequent processing of results in order for these to be successfully integrated into the NLP applications that could benefit from them (e.g., machine translation). This paper presents an accurate method for identifying translation equivalents of collocati...

This paper presents the second participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) task at CLEF 2006. We present the results of the submitted runs for the English collection and very briefly for the Czech collection, followed by many additional experiments. We have used two Information Retrieval systems in our experiments: SMART and Terrier, with sever...

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...

Abstract Multiword units have experienced renewed interest in recent research due to their prominent role usage-based approaches general linguistics, as well work on bilingualism and second language acquisition. While the last few decades focused figurative multiword (i.e., idioms), a growing number of studies more recently non-figurative (collocations particular, but also binomials or lexical ...

The importance of collocations for success in language learning is widely recognized. Concordancers, originally designed for linguists, are among the most popular tools for students to obtain, organize, and study collocations derived from corpora. This paper describes the design and development of a collocation learning system that is built from Wikipedia text and provides language learners wit...

Multiword terms (MWTs) are relevant strings of words in text collections. Once they are automatically extracted, they may be used by an Information Retrieval system, suggesting its users possible conceptual interesting refinements of their information needs. As a matter of fact, these multiword terms point to relevant information, often corresponding to topics and subtopics in the text collecti...