The study of collocation – the restricted way in which two or more words combine across texts – has recently gained much relevance. The acquisition of these combinations has proved an important obstacle for non-native speakers of a foreign language as evinced in recorded unusual combinations of words. This paper analyses nonstandard collocations present in the written production of Spanish-speaking university students of English as a foreign language (EFL), in search of recurrent patterns and strategies that may explain these inappropriate collocations as a way to contribute to EFL teaching and learning. The results show a considerable influence of learners’ mother tongue, which induces them to translate literally from L1 into L2 one or bot...
Vocabulary teaching and learning is one of the important aspects of language that should be given pr...
Mastering collocations is a marker of communicative competence. Knowing which words work together – ...
The importance of collocations in second language learning has been recognized in the past few dec-a...
AbstractThe study of collocation – the restricted way in which two or more words combine across text...
En este trabajo se analiza el uso de las colocaciones léxicas en 173 estudiantes alemanes de español...
This research investigated the realization of collocation in two respects: how collocation was forme...
In this paper, at first, I will try to show the importance of the knowledge of collocations for ELE ...
AbstractDuring the past three decades, the need for emphasis on collocations has received increasing...
It is widely acknowledged that collocations play an important role in second language learning, part...
A collocation is a combination of two or more words which frequently occur together (McCarthy and O’...
Knowing a word is not only knowing its form and meaning. Hanks (1987) affirmed that words do not co-...
AbstractThe purpose of the present study was to investigate the collocational errors in EFL college ...
AbstractLexical collocations are groups of two or more words that come up together on a regular basi...
Professional and academic discourse is characterised by a specific phraseology, which usually poses ...
As collocations play an important role in second language learning, especially at intermediate-advan...
Vocabulary teaching and learning is one of the important aspects of language that should be given pr...
Mastering collocations is a marker of communicative competence. Knowing which words work together – ...
The importance of collocations in second language learning has been recognized in the past few dec-a...
AbstractThe study of collocation – the restricted way in which two or more words combine across text...
En este trabajo se analiza el uso de las colocaciones léxicas en 173 estudiantes alemanes de español...
This research investigated the realization of collocation in two respects: how collocation was forme...
In this paper, at first, I will try to show the importance of the knowledge of collocations for ELE ...
AbstractDuring the past three decades, the need for emphasis on collocations has received increasing...
It is widely acknowledged that collocations play an important role in second language learning, part...
A collocation is a combination of two or more words which frequently occur together (McCarthy and O’...
Knowing a word is not only knowing its form and meaning. Hanks (1987) affirmed that words do not co-...
AbstractThe purpose of the present study was to investigate the collocational errors in EFL college ...
AbstractLexical collocations are groups of two or more words that come up together on a regular basi...
Professional and academic discourse is characterised by a specific phraseology, which usually poses ...
As collocations play an important role in second language learning, especially at intermediate-advan...
Vocabulary teaching and learning is one of the important aspects of language that should be given pr...
Mastering collocations is a marker of communicative competence. Knowing which words work together – ...
The importance of collocations in second language learning has been recognized in the past few dec-a...