An Analysis on Grammatical Collocations in Written Texts of EFL Learners

Dinçer A., Balcı Harmandar B., Sucak D.

First Language-For-All Conference, Adana, Türkiye, 21 - 22 Ekim 2022, cilt.1, sa.1, ss.47

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 1
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Adana
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.47
  • Çukurova Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Vocabulary acquisition requires a great deal of collocational knowledge and competence. This

requirement is prevalent in first language acquisition, second language acquisition and foreign

language learning as well. Foreign language learners with sufficient collocational competence

can convey their messages accurately and fluently in the target language. In addition, since

collocations are units which consist of a string of two or more than two words from different

parts of speech, language learners have the chance to master the lexical webs, their associations

and syntagmatic patterns in their oral and written production in the target language. In this

respect, this study primarily investigates grammatical collocations in the written texts produced

by A1 level Turkish foreign language learners of English who studied at Çukurova University

School of Foreign Languages during the 2020-2021 academic year. The data were analyzed


through AntConc 4.0.5 (Anthony, 2022) corpus analysis tool.

Keywords

collocation, grammatical collocation, written corpus, EFL learners