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The Translation of Arabic Collocations into English: Dictionary-based vs. Dictionary-free Measured Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper compares the output of two translation tasks. In an attempt to find out the extent to which students of translation can translate Arabic contextualized collocations into English properly, two conflicting views about carrying out a translation ...
Al-Kharabsheh, Aladdin, Gorgis, Dinha T.
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Quantifying controlled productive knowledge of collocations across proficiency and word frequency levels

open access: yesStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
The present study explores the relationship between controlled productive knowledge of collocations and L2 proficiency, the role of frequency in controlled productive knowledge of collocations, and the quantifiability of controlled productive ...
Déogratias Nizonkiza
doaj   +1 more source

The shapes of collocation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The tool GraphColl (Brezina et al. 2015) allows collocational networks to be identified within corpora, enabling corpus analysis to go beyond two-way collocation.
Baker, John Paul
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Productive and Receptive Collocational Knowledge of Iranian EFL Learners at Different Proficiency Levels

open access: yes, 2017
In the present study, an attempt was made to probe into the probable difference between Iranian intermediate and advanced EFL learners' receptive and productive collocational knowledge.
Fahimeh Talakoob, Mansour Koosha
semanticscholar   +1 more source

On Collocations and Their Interaction with Parsing and Translation

open access: yesInformatics, 2013
We address the problem of automatically processing collocations—a subclass of multi-word expressions characterized by a high degree of morphosyntactic flexibility—in the context of two major applications, namely, syntactic parsing and machine translation.
Violeta Seretan
doaj   +1 more source

Do English language learners know collocations? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This paper has a twofold purpose. First, to present the level of collocational competence among intermediate learners of the English language and to answer the question to what degree they know English collocations.
Martyńska, Małgorzata
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Towards modelled testing of productive knowledge of collocations

open access: yesSouthern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2020
Accurate use of collocations is seen as a measure of a learner’s proficiency in a second/foreign language.
Déogratias Nizonkiza   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

At the Intersection of L1 Congruence and L2 Exposure: Collocational Knowledge of Advanced Arab Users of English

open access: yesInternational Journal of Arabic-English Studies, 2014
The study is quantitative research, examining the effects of learning environment and native language (L1) on the collocational knowledge of advanced Arab users of English as a second language (ESL) (n=34) and foreign language (EFL) (n=33).
Alla Zareva, Asmaa Shehata
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Impact of Length of Study Abroad on Collocational Knowledge: The Case of Saudi Students in Australia.

open access: yes, 2017
This study investigates the impact that study in Australia has on the lexical knowledge of Saudi Arabian students. It focuses on: 1) the effects that the length of study in Australia has on the acquisition of lexical collocations, as reflected by lexical
Ibrahim R. Alqarni
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Development of collocational competence of students on the basis of electronic linguistic corpus

open access: yesВестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2019
We discuss the use of the linguistic corpus as a means for the development of collocational competence of students. We reveal the contents of the concepts of “lexis” and “lexical skill”.
V. V. Klochikhin
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