collocational knowledge
The relationship between collocational knowledge, speaking proficiency, and the use of collocation in Iranian EFL learners' oral performance
... of collocational knowledge: In order to answer the research questions raised above, a test of collocations was used to determine the participants’ collocational ...of Collocational ...
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Productive and Receptive Collocational Knowledge of Iranian EFL Learners at Different Proficiency Levels
... receptive collocational knowledge of Saudi EFL ...productive knowledge of ...tive knowledge of collocations is stronger than productive knowledge of collocations, and the frequency of ...
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Contributory Role of Praise in Improving Collocational Knowledge of University Students Majoring in TEFL and Linguistics
... Evidently, the findings of the present study may have implications for EFL teachers and syllabus designers, and materials developers. Another application to be included is that the lesson planners, policy makes, and ...
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The Construction of a Chinese Collocational Knowledge Resource and Its Application for Second Language Acquisition
... Existing resources of collocational knowledge mainly fall into two types, i.e. collocation dictionary and collocation bank. Manually compiled dictionaries may have problems in coverage and consistency, and ...
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The Impact of Decision-making Tasks and Production Tasks on the Collocational Knowledge of Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners
... word knowledge but in time- constrained classroom settings and in majority of FLT settings, it is difficult to ensure that wholly communicative task-based instruction will trigger use of any given item ...
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A Semantic Relatedness Measure Based on Combined Encyclopedic, Ontological and Collocational Knowledge
... By combining two pre-existing semantic relatedness measures and by adding a component based on fre- quency of collocations, we have obtained a new mea- sure that surpasses the one given in (Agirre et al., 2009) by 11% ...
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A Corpus-based Collocational Analysis of Noun Premodification Types in Academic Writing
... the knowledge of collocations among different groups of ESL or EFL learners reveal that learners face particular difficulty in producing appropriate word combinations because of their lack of collocational ...
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The Effect of Lexical Collocational Density on the Iranian EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension
... learners’ knowledge of lexical ...their collocational knowledge was not high ...their knowledge of ...their knowledge of lexical collocation in ...incorporate collocational items ...
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The Effect of Form-Focused Versus Meaning-Focused Instruction on the Development of Adjective-Noun Collocations among Iranian EFL Learners
... their Collocational knowledge on the second and third administered ...background knowledge plays a key role in the reading process, but that this role is not as important as the role of instruction ...
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Collocational Translation Memory Extraction Based on Statistical and Linguistic Information
... of collocational knowledge, a machine translation system may recognize “take” as “na” ...take collocational translation memory into consideration to improve the translation ...
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Collocational Translation Memory Extraction Based on Statistical and Linguistic Information
... of collocational knowledge, machine translation system may recognize take as “na” ...take collocational translation memory into consideration for improved translation ...
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A Corpus-based Analysis of Collocational Errors in the Iranian EFL Learners' Oral Production
... their collocational patterns. Actually, abundant collocational errors observed in this study should prompt teachers to reconsider their approach towards vocabulary ...learners' collocational ...
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Pinpointing the classifiers of English language writing ability: A discriminant function analysis approach
... The results of this study generated a number of questions which can be investigated in further research. The impact of a narrative intervention program which is merged into an L2 writing course on L2 learners’ writing ...
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Assessing Collocational Competence by Probating Emotioncy: Testing the Mediating Role of Gender in Educational Dimensions
... ers’ collocational knowledge and their performance on cloze test, C-test and open ended ...testing collocational knowledge of lan- guage learners; however, there exists considerable gap in ...
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What are the collocational exemplars of high-frequency English vocabulary? on identifying Mwus most representative of high-frequency, lemmatized concgrams
... students’ knowledge of the MWUs identified. This study shows that their knowledge of the items identified was extremely low, so low in fact that the data did not even correlate with TOEFL ...productive ...
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Evaluation of automatic collocation extraction methods for language learning
... The ACL comprises of 2,469 lexical colloca- tions in written academic English and is based on a written part of the Pearson International Corpus of Academic English (PICAE) of around 25 million words. It was carefully ...
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Modeling the Statistical Idiosyncrasy of Multiword Expressions
... our knowledge, however, non-substitutability (with near synonyms) or in other words colloca- tional weight has never been explicitly and empir- ically ...model collocational weight, and investigate its ...
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Collocational analysis as a gateway to critical discourse analysis : the case of the construction of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in the UK press
... Used mainly to refer to refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, these are verbs denoting entry to the country of destination/transit e.g., arrive, come, enter, verbs denoting their journe[r] ...
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Inferring Psycholinguistic Properties of Words
... various collocational features and psy- cholinguistic measures extracted from the MRC Psycholinguistic Database (Coltheart, 1981), they trained a ranker (Joachims, 2002) that reached first place in the English ...
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Collocational Processing in Two Languages: A psycholinguistic comparison of monolinguals and bilinguals
... the collocational processing of native speakers of a L1 other than English, this research contributes to further the understanding and exploration of collocations in a different L1 ...
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