Abstract:Learning collocations is one of the difficult tasks in second language acquisition that has been largely overlooked in the research literature. The patterning of words and collocations in a language is not predictable based on grammar and lexicon alone. A variety of factors have been found to affect the acquisition of collocations in the ESL context such as exposure, the degree of L1-L2 differences, language proficiency level, and type of collocations. Previous research has focused predominantly on detecting E… Show more
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