Verb-noun collocations in written discourse of Iranian EFL learners
When native speakers of English write, they employ both grammatical rules and collocations. Collocations are words that are present in the memory of native speakers as ready-made prefabricated chunks. Non-native speakers who wish to acquire native-like fluency should give appropriate attention to co...
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| description | When native speakers of English write, they employ both grammatical rules and collocations. Collocations are words that are present in the memory of native speakers as ready-made prefabricated chunks. Non-native speakers who wish to acquire native-like fluency should give appropriate attention to collocations in writing in order not to produce sentences that native speakers may consider odd. The present study tries to explore the use of verb-noun collocations in written discourse of English as foreign language (EFL) among Iranian EFL learners from one academic year to the next in Iran. To measure the use of verb-noun collocations in written discourse, there was a 60-minute task of writing story based on a series of six pictures whereby for each picture, three verb-noun collocations were measured, and nouns were provided to limit the choice of collocations. The results of the statistical analysis of ANOVA for the research question indicated that there was a significant difference in the use of lexical verb-noun collocations in written discourse both between and within the four academic years. The results of a post hoc multiple comparison tests confirmed that the means are significantly different between the first year and the third and fourth years, between the second and the fourth, and between the third and the fourth academic year which indicate substantial development in verb-noun collocation proficiency. The vital implication is that the learners could use verb-noun collocations in productive skill of writing. |
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| spelling | upm-468612018-01-30T08:50:29Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/46861/ Verb-noun collocations in written discourse of Iranian EFL learners Ebrahimi-Bazzaz, Fatemeh Abd Samad, Arshad Ismail, Ismi Arif Noordin, Nooreen When native speakers of English write, they employ both grammatical rules and collocations. Collocations are words that are present in the memory of native speakers as ready-made prefabricated chunks. Non-native speakers who wish to acquire native-like fluency should give appropriate attention to collocations in writing in order not to produce sentences that native speakers may consider odd. The present study tries to explore the use of verb-noun collocations in written discourse of English as foreign language (EFL) among Iranian EFL learners from one academic year to the next in Iran. To measure the use of verb-noun collocations in written discourse, there was a 60-minute task of writing story based on a series of six pictures whereby for each picture, three verb-noun collocations were measured, and nouns were provided to limit the choice of collocations. The results of the statistical analysis of ANOVA for the research question indicated that there was a significant difference in the use of lexical verb-noun collocations in written discourse both between and within the four academic years. The results of a post hoc multiple comparison tests confirmed that the means are significantly different between the first year and the third and fourth years, between the second and the fourth, and between the third and the fourth academic year which indicate substantial development in verb-noun collocation proficiency. The vital implication is that the learners could use verb-noun collocations in productive skill of writing. Australian International Academic Centre 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/46861/1/Verb-noun%20collocations%20in%20written%20discourse%20of%20Iranian%20EFL%20learners.pdf Ebrahimi-Bazzaz, Fatemeh and Abd Samad, Arshad and Ismail, Ismi Arif and Noordin, Nooreen (2015) Verb-noun collocations in written discourse of Iranian EFL learners. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, 4 (4). pp. 186-191. ISSN 2200-3592; ESSN: 2200-3452 http://www.ijalel.org/ 10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.4n.4p.186 |
| spellingShingle | Ebrahimi-Bazzaz, Fatemeh Abd Samad, Arshad Ismail, Ismi Arif Noordin, Nooreen Verb-noun collocations in written discourse of Iranian EFL learners |
| title | Verb-noun collocations in written discourse of Iranian EFL learners |
| title_full | Verb-noun collocations in written discourse of Iranian EFL learners |
| title_fullStr | Verb-noun collocations in written discourse of Iranian EFL learners |
| title_full_unstemmed | Verb-noun collocations in written discourse of Iranian EFL learners |
| title_short | Verb-noun collocations in written discourse of Iranian EFL learners |
| title_sort | verb-noun collocations in written discourse of iranian efl learners |
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