Defining collocation for Slovenian lexical resources
In this paper, we define the notion of collocation for the purpose of its use in machine-readable language resources, which will be used in the creation of electronic dictionaries and language applications for Slovene.
Iztok Kosem, Simon Krek, Polona Gantar
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The treatment of lexical collocations in EFL coursebooks in the Estonian secondary school context [PDF]
The article investigates lexical collocations encountered in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction in Estonian upper secondary schools. This is achieved through a statistical analysis of collocations featuring in three coursebooks where the ...
Liina Vassiljev +2 more
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For an extended definition of lexical collocations [PDF]
In this paper, we address two main problems raised by the classical definitions of restricted lexical collocations: 1) the binary status of collocations; 2) the problem of function words which are often implicitly excluded from the definition of collocationsWe show that collocations are fundamentally argument-predicate structures and that most ternary ...
Tutin, Agnès, Agnès Tutin
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An Overview of Collocations in Saeb Tabrizi's Sonnets [PDF]
Collocations in literary texts, resulting from the poet and author's creativity in choosing proper words in the paradigmatic axis, along with the presentation of novel images, create a pleasant meaning and word proportionality that is sometimes ...
Mahla Arianpour, Maryam Alinezhad
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Effects of EFL vocabulary instruction on Arab learners usage of lexical collocations in speaking performance [PDF]
For many decades, the role of the learner's mother tongue in foreign and second language classrooms has been a topic of debate. EFL teachers may present and explain vocabulary in students native language, they may do so in the target language, or they ...
Abu Sneida, Taghreed I.G. +2 more
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The Role of Concordancing and Output in Developing the Collocational Competence [PDF]
The present study explored the role of concordancing in learning lexical and grammatical collocations under two conditions, with and without output. It also set out to rank lexical and grammatical collocations in terms of the degree of the challenge they
Afsaneh Saeedakhtar, Sahar Seyedasgari
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Relevance Theory and Qur'anic Collocation [PDF]
The study explores lexical and figurative Qur'anic collocations in four translations. The four Translations chosen for the purpose of the study are as follows; The Meaning of the Glorious Coran (1970) by Marmaduke Pickthall, The meaning of the Glorious
Samah Hassan Abu-Serie Hussein
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LEXICAL COLLOCATION PRODUCTIVITY OF INDONESIAN L2 WRITERS IN ESSAY: A COMPARATIVE CORPUS-BASED STUDY
The richness of collocation usage reflects the language mastery of English users. However, it has been recognized that L2 users often have problems with collocations due to several reasons.
Yenni Arif Rahman
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Teaching Collocations to EFL Students [PDF]
The topic of this article is teaching collocations to university EFL students. It focuses on different techniques and activities that are used to present collocations to English learners, and provides historical background of collocation studies and ...
970, ELLIOTT, Lidija
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Collocations and collocation types in ESP textbooks: Quantitative pedagogical analysis [PDF]
The term collocation, even though it is rather common in the English language grammar, it is not a well known or commonly used term in the textbooks and scientific papers written in the Serbian language.
Bogdanović Vesna Ž. +1 more
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