Students' Familiarity with Metaphorical Collocations of time: A Preliminary Investigation

Abstract

The present study attempted to investigate EFL students' familiarity with collocations of time (i.e., verb + time and time + noun) in the English language. As many as 42 students were enrolled in this study as participants in which 23 participants were fifth-semester students and 19 were seventh-semester students. To collect the data, the questionnaire was designed and developed based on corpus search results in terms of the verb collocations (verb + time) and noun collocates (time + noun). The data were collected by distributing questionnaires confirming their familiarity with some setlists of time collocations. The results showed that most students are already familiar with many time collocations, either verb + time or time + noun combinations. However, some high-frequency collocations were less familiar among EFL learners. This result should be considered by introducing more intensively learners to English collocations, especially collocations of time.

Contextualizing EFL Learners’ Proficiency in Using English Collocations

“…The majority of the research on English collocation learners' performances has noted the difficulties of students whose original languages are comparable to English (Dąbrowska, 2018). There are few studies of students who utilize a significantly distinct language system, like Indonesian, in terms of their collocational understanding (Arifani, 2019;Oktavianti, 2022;Karyn, 2019). It would be helpful to do the challenges that students from various L1 backgrounds have while learning English collocations since it would help teachers figure out the best strategies for developing their students' collocational competency.…”