Collocations in a learner corpus
Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first time comprehensively investigated. On the basis of a learner corpus, idiosyncratic collocation use by learners is uncovered, the building mat...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
John Benjamins Publishing Company
2004
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| Online Access: | Aggregator: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=622326 Aggregator, Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9789027294739.pdf 
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| Author Notes: | Nadja Nesselhauf |
| Summary: | Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first time comprehensively investigated. On the basis of a learner corpus, idiosyncratic collocation use by learners is uncovered, the building material of learner collocations examined, and the factors that contribute to the difficulty of certain groups of collocations identified. An extensive discussion of the implications of the results for the foreign language classroom is also presented, and the contentious issue of the relation of corpus linguistic research and language teaching is thus extended to learner corpus analysis. Collocations in a Learner Corpus -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Collocations in native and non-native speaker language -- 1.1. The role of collocations in language and language teaching -- 1.2. Previous research on collocations in learner English -- 1.3. Aims and scope of the study -- 2. Investigating collocations in a learner corpus -- 2.1. The notion of `collocations' -- 2.1.1. Definitions of collocations -- 2.1.2. Related concepts -- 2.1.3. Classifications of collocations -- 2.1.4. The definition of collocations in this study -- 2.1.5. The classification of collocations in this study -- 2.2. The question of norm in ELT and the notion of error -- 2.3. Learner corpora and the analysis of learner language -- 2.4. Data and procedure -- 2.4.1. The learner corpus used -- 2.4.2. The syntactic patterns considered -- 2.4.3. Determining the degree of acceptability of the combinations -- 2.4.4. Delimiting collocations from other types of word combinations -- 3. The use of collocations by advanced learners -- 3.1. Overall results -- 3.2. Deviations in the verb -- 3.2.1. Types and frequencies -- 3.2.2. Deviations only involving simple verbs -- 3.2.3. Deviations involving phrasal verbs -- 3.2.4. Deviations involving prepositional verbs -- 3.2.5. Other deviations concerning the verb -- 3.2.6. Regularities in verb deviations across categories -- 3.3. Deviations in the noun phrase or prepositional phrase -- 3.3.1. Deviations concerning the noun -- 3.3.2. Deviations concerning the determiner -- 3.3.3. Deviations concerning noun complementation -- 3.3.4. Deviations in the preposition of the prepositional phrase -- 3.4. More global deviations -- 3.4.1. Stretched verb construction instead of the corresponding verb -- 3.4.2. Whole collocation inappropriate. |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9789027294739 |