there is insufficient rigorous research examining which features of efl/esl learners’ writing can be improved through their awareness/knowledge of collocation. this study, therefore, addressed this issue and examined the effect of this awareness on iranian efl learners’ writing performance with respect to the specific features of each writing sub-component (i.e., content, organization, vocabula...

This paper aregues for long–term awareness in cooperation support systems as a means for simulating physical proximity in virtually collocated groups. It then introduces a modular approach to awareness support. This approach makes it possible to configure the amount and the type of awareness to fit different cooperative settings. An example implementation is described in order to demonstrate th...

: This study investigated the impact of audio-visual input enhancement teaching techniques on improving English as Foreign Language (EFL) learnersˈ collocation learning as well as their accuracy concerning collocation use in narrative writing. In addition, it compared the impact and efficiency of audio-visual input enhancement in two learning contexts, namely traditional and mo...

the importance and howness of language learning/ acquisition has been a great concern for decades. there are many factors that play important roles in this regard. this research compared the performance of native persian and english elementary students to see if there is any significant difference between the two groups and which type of collocation they performed better within the groups. for ...

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...

one of the most important and brilliant aspects in each language is the collocation that finally add up to lexical coherence . coming together in semantics considers as one of the semantic relationships at lexical level that appears at all languages , and doesnt specialize for a certain language . mean while .the study of pre-islamic period poem about coming together is a significant affair . t...

abstractthe present study explores the impact of corpus-based collocation instruction on intermediate iranian efl learners' writing ability. for this study, 84 iranian learners, studying english as a foreign language in bayan institute, iran, were selected and were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. conventional methods of writing instruction were taught to the control ...