The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations
The study investigated L2 learners’ acquisition of verb-noun and adjective-noun collocations following two kinds of instruction: input flood only and input flood plus input enhancement (in the form of underlining). L1 Polish learners of English as a foreign language were exposed to infrequent colloc...
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| description | The study investigated L2 learners’ acquisition of verb-noun and adjective-noun collocations following two kinds of instruction: input flood only and input flood plus input enhancement (in the form of underlining). L1 Polish learners of English as a foreign language were exposed to infrequent collocations embedded in stories that were read during three consecutive weeks. Their collocational competence was subsequently assessed in a battery of delayed tests tapping into productive and receptive levels of collocational mastery. Input flood plus input enhancement resulted in the acquisition of collocations but only at the level of form recall and form recognition. The findings are discussed with reference to the complexity of acquiring and measuring L2 collocational knowledge. The article concludes with implications for instructed second language acquisition. |
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| spelling | nottingham-468712020-05-04T18:03:02Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46871/ The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations Szudarski, Paweł Carter, Ronald The study investigated L2 learners’ acquisition of verb-noun and adjective-noun collocations following two kinds of instruction: input flood only and input flood plus input enhancement (in the form of underlining). L1 Polish learners of English as a foreign language were exposed to infrequent collocations embedded in stories that were read during three consecutive weeks. Their collocational competence was subsequently assessed in a battery of delayed tests tapping into productive and receptive levels of collocational mastery. Input flood plus input enhancement resulted in the acquisition of collocations but only at the level of form recall and form recognition. The findings are discussed with reference to the complexity of acquiring and measuring L2 collocational knowledge. The article concludes with implications for instructed second language acquisition. Wiley 2016-07-07 Article PeerReviewed Szudarski, Paweł and Carter, Ronald (2016) The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 26 (2). pp. 245-265. ISSN 1473-4192 SLA foreign language teaching methodology corpus linguistics http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijal.12092/abstract doi:10.1111/ijal.12092 doi:10.1111/ijal.12092 |
| spellingShingle | SLA foreign language teaching methodology corpus linguistics Szudarski, Paweł Carter, Ronald The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations |
| title | The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations |
| title_full | The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations |
| title_fullStr | The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations |
| title_short | The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations |
| title_sort | role of input flood and input enhancement in efl learners’ acquisition of collocations |
| topic | SLA foreign language teaching methodology corpus linguistics |
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