Teaching lexical chunks on retention and production of referential and collocational meaning of lexis among the Iranian EFL learners
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This study focuses on the role of collocations in language teaching. Due to vagueness in definition and categorization, the collocations are being divided into two types: referential collocations meaning being recognizable by just referring to single word companies, and inferential collocations being the types that the meaning cannot be easily discerned by non-native speakers of English. This study compares these two types of collocations and found that learners had more difficulty in producing the collocations while contrary to some studies they also do not recognize the inferential or referential collocations and face difficulty recognizing or producing them.
Keywords: collocation, inferential, referential.
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Jaafarigohar, M., & Nazari, M. (2015). Teaching lexical chunks on retention and production of referential and collocational meaning of lexis among the Iranian EFL learners. Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 5(1), 65–75. https://doi.org/10.18844/gjflt.v5i0.41
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Akbari, R. (1995). The role of language-specific collocations on the written production of intermediate Iranian students learning English as a foreign language. Unpublished MA thesis, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran.
Baker, M. (1992). In other words: A coursebook on translation. Kentucky: Routledge.
Benson, M., Benson, E. & Ilson, R. (eds.). (1997). The BBI dictionary of English word combinations. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Chan, S. (2008). Buildings Department Warns of High Winds. The New York Times, June 16,
Crystal, D. (2005). How language works. New York: Overlook Press.
Crystal, D. (1997). In, M. A. Locher & S. L. Graham. (2010). (Ed.). Interpersonal pragmatics. New York: Walter de Gruyter Publication.
Dweik, S. B. & Shakra, A. M. (2011). Problems in translating collocations in religious texts from Arabic into English. The Linguistics Journal. 5, (1), 5-41.
Ellis, N. C. (1997). Vocabulary acquisition: Word structure, collocation, grammar, and meaning. In M. McCarthy & N. Schmidt (Eds.) (1997), Vocabulary: Description, acquisition and pedagogy (pp. 122-139). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Evert, S. (2004). The statistics of word cooccurrences word pairs and collocations. Unpublished Ph.D thesis. Von der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät der Universität Stuttgart zur Erlangung der Würde eines Doktors der Philosophie (Dr. phil.) genehmigte Abhandlung,Farrokh, P. &
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Firth, J. R. (1957). Papers in linguistics (1934-1951). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Grimly, S. Patrol, K.M. (2002). In H.T. Giang. (2010). A study on the pragmatic features of collocation used in advertising hair care products in English and Vietnamese. Unpublished MA thesis. Ministry of Education and Training: University of Danang. Received from: tailieuso.udn.vn/bitstream/TTHL_125/1379/2/Summary.pdf‎
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Lin, Y. (2009). Enhancing EFL learners’ English reading proficiency through collocation instruction. English Teaching & Learning, 33(1), 37-71.
Lyons, J. (1995). Linguistic semantics: An introduction. Cambridge: CUP.
McEnery, T., Xiao, R. & Tono, Y. (2006). Corpus-based language studies: An advanced resource book. London: Routledge.
Moon, R. (2001). Vocabulary connections: Multi-word items in English. In Schmitt and McCarthy J. Options for vocabulary learning through communication tasks. ELT Journal, 55(1).
Nattinger, J. R., & DeCarrico, J. S. (1992). Lexical phrases and language teaching. Oxford: OUP.
Nofal, K. H. (2012). Collocations in English and Arabic: A comparative study. English Language and Literature Studies; 2, (3), p.80.
Nordquist, N. (2013). Collocation. Received from: http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/collocationterm.htm.
Paciorek, A. & Williams, J. (2013). Semantic implicit learning in language. CogSci Proceedings. Received from: http://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2013/index.html.
Paradis, M. (2004). A Nero-linguistic theory of bilingualism. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Pirmoradian, M. & Tabatabei, O. (2012). The enhancement of lexical collocation learning through concordanceing: A case of Iranian EFL learners. MJAL 4: 4.
Robins, R. (1964). General linguistics: An introductory survey. Longman. Sadeghi, K. & Panahifar, F. (2013). A corpus-based analysis of collocational errors in the Iranian EFL learners' oral production. The
Journal of Teaching Language Skills (JTLS), 4(4), 53-78.
Sadoughvanini, S.H. (2012). The relationship between use of collocations and expressiveness: Fulfilling the referential function of language. International Journal of English Language and Literature Studies 1(2), 28-37.
Sinclair, J. M. (1991). Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Yousefi, O. M. & Pustch, S., & Salehipour, S. (2012). The effect of pre-teaching vocabulary and collocations on the writing development of advanced students. Journal of Academic and Applied Studies, 2(5). May 2012, 86- 103. Received from:www.academians.org
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