Teaching lexical chunks on retention and production of referential and collocational meaning of lexis among the Iranian EFL learners

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18844/gjflt.v5i0.41

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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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Teaching lexical chunks on retention and production of referential and collocational meaning of lexis among the Iranian EFL learners. (2015). Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 5(1), 65–75. https://doi.org/10.18844/gjflt.v5i0.41
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