Phraseology: Theory, Analysis, and Applications

Kuiper, Koenraad; Cowie, Anthony Paul

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“…In the field of lexicon, researchers pointed out that fixed and semi-fixed phrases, such as idiom and collocation, should be granted as important roles in language development (Bahns, 1993;Sinclair, 1991). This view has been supported by scholars in the field of second language acquisition (Bahns and Eldaw, 1993;Cowie, 1998;Granger, 1998;Howarth, 1998), and researchers in pedagogical perspective (Ellis, 1996(Ellis, , 2001McCarthy, 2004;Nation, 2001). They also supported that EFL/ESL (English as a Second language) learners at each level should be aware of the significance of collocation.…”

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A Corpus-based Study of Collocation Production of Chinese EFL Learners

Gao

Zhu²,

Luo³

2019

IJE

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It is of great difficult for EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners to acquire collocation. This research investigated V + N collocation production of Chinese middle school university EFL learners based on TECCL (Ten-thousand English Composition of Chinese Learners) corpus, aiming at discovering the difficulties in collocation usage. In the study, collocations in the writing samples were identified manually and evaluated by dictionaries, corpus and native speakers as right or wrong. Collocation accuracy was figured out and errors were examined. Therefore, difficulties in collocation usage were discovered. The data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively to yield the following three findings: first, middle school students and university students respectively produced 79% and 83% correct collocations among their collocation production. Second, collocation accuracy did not improve significantly as overall L2 (second language) proficiency increases. Third, wrong choice of verb and noun was the largest problem for Chinese EFL learners. The results also suggested that L1 (first language) influence and deficiency in L2 knowledge affected collocation usage. Based on these findings, pedagogical implications were discussed.

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A Corpus-based Study of Collocation Production of Chinese EFL Learners

Gao

Zhu²,

Luo³

2019

IJE

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“…Such books should figure in one's reading. For formulaic language, Phraseology: Theory, analysis and applications (Cowie, 1998), Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective (Granger & Meunier, 2008), Researching collocations in another language (Barfield & Gyllstad, 2009), the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics: Volume 32: Topics in formulaic language (Polio, 2012), The Routledge handbook of vocabulary studies (Webb, 2020), and Vocabulary theory, patterning and teaching (Szudarski & Barclay, 2021) all provide many valuable insights into FL.…”

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Norbert Schmitt's essential bookshelf: Formulaic language

Schmitt

2022

Lang. Teach.

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“…For example, verbs or adjectives co-occurring with the query noun phrase would form V-N collocations or A-N collocations. Collocation knowledge has been proven to help language learners achieve native-like fluency [48], [49]. Here we use the phrase "useful purpose" to illustrate how GRASP suggests the preceding information.…”

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An Automatic Reference Aid for Improving EFL Learners' Formulaic Expressions in Productive Language Use

Chen

Huang

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IEEE Trans. Learning Technol.

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Formulaic language is important to language acquisition; however, English language learners are often reported to have problems with formulaic expressions. Several lists of formulaic sequences have been proposed, mainly for developing teaching and testing materials. However, their limited numbers and insufficient usage information seem unable to benefit formulaic language use. To address these issues we have developed GRASP, a reference aid for formulaic expressions, to promote learners' productive competence. Users are allowed multi-word inputs to target their desired phrases or collocations. Utilizing natural language processing techniques, our system categorizes and displays the structures and sequences in a hierarchical way. The corresponding example sentences are also provided. The formulaic structures serve as a quick access index. The formulaic sequences and corpus examples illustrate the real world language use. Importantly, automatic summarization from language data lends support to the idea of datadriven learning. A single-group pre-posttest design was adopted to assess the effectiveness of GRASP on 150 Chinese-speaking college freshmen. The results indicated that our reference aid made a substantial contribution to students' performance on formulaic expression use in a sentence completion task, compared with the existing tools. Notably, the less proficient students showed marked improvement.

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Phraseology: Theory, Analysis, and Applications

Cited by 73 publications

References 24 publications

A Corpus-based Study of Collocation Production of Chinese EFL Learners

A Corpus-based Study of Collocation Production of Chinese EFL Learners

Norbert Schmitt's essential bookshelf: Formulaic language

An Automatic Reference Aid for Improving EFL Learners' Formulaic Expressions in Productive Language Use

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