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Using corpora to develop learners’ collocational competence
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Title: | Using corpora to develop learners’ collocational competence |
Authors: | Li, Shuangling |
Keywords: | Corpus-Assisted Learning Collocational Competence Verb-Preposition Collocations |
Date Issued: | 01 Oct 2017 |
Publisher: | University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research |
Citation: | Li, S. (2017). Using corpora to develop learners’ collocational competence. Language Learning & Technology, 21(3), 153–171. Retrieved from http://llt.msu.edu/issues/october2017/li.pdf |
Abstract: | This article investigates the role of direct corpus use in learners’ collocational competence in academic writing. An experiment was conducted between two groups of Chinese postgraduates who had no previous knowledge of corpora. It was embedded in a regular 4-month linguistics course in the students’ programmes, where a corpus-assisted method was used for the experimental group and a traditional, or rule-based, method was used for the control group. The English essays written by these two groups of learners from different time periods (before, immediately after, and two months after the course) were analysed regarding the learners’ collocational use—in particular, verb-preposition collocations. The results reveal that while both groups showed improvements in their academic writing, the students in the experimental group displayed a significant improvement in the use of collocations, including a higher rate of accuracy, or naturalness, and an increased use of academic collocations and fixed phraseological items. It is thus concluded that the knowledge and use of corpora can help students raise their awareness of habitual collocational use and develop their collocational competence. This supports the positive role of direct corpus application in an EFL context. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/44625 |
ISSN: | 1094-3501 1094-3501 |
Journal: | Language Learning & Technology |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue/Number: | 3 |
Appears in Collections: |
Volume 21 Number 3, October 2017 Special Issue on Corpora in Language Learning and Teaching |
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