Putting in the Last Piece: A Comprehensive Profiling of Learners' Collocational Competence
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| Title: | Putting in the Last Piece: A Comprehensive Profiling of Learners' Collocational Competence |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Zhiliang Yue, Sugunya Ruangjaroon |
| Source: | LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network. 2025 18(1):54-78. |
| Availability: | Language Institute of Thammasat University. The Prachan Campus, 2 Prachan Road, Bangkok 10200 Thailand. e-mail: learnjournal@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/learn |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 25 |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Accuracy, Task Analysis, Profiles, Language Proficiency, Teaching Methods, Computational Linguistics, Language Tests, Chinese, Native Language, Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students) |
| ISSN: | 2630-0672 2672-9431 |
| Abstract: | This study aims to provide a comprehensive profile of collocational competence, a key component of one's overall linguistic competence. For the maximum of ecological validity, we elicited naturalistic oral/written production data from 84 Chinese intermediate EFL learners and performed a 2×2 fashion of analysis on their performance in each of the six aspects, namely, collocation accuracy rate, collocation associative strength, collocation density, collocation diversity, and two relevant lexical levels. The findings not only show learners' various inadequacies compared to native speakers, but also reveal the substantial discrepancies between their implicit and explicit collocational knowledge. Our result largely bears out Wray's Dual Model, and some pedagogical implications are suggested accordingly, including a learning mode shift from bottom-up to top-down to remedy the situation. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2025 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1470867 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | This study aims to provide a comprehensive profile of collocational competence, a key component of one's overall linguistic competence. For the maximum of ecological validity, we elicited naturalistic oral/written production data from 84 Chinese intermediate EFL learners and performed a 2×2 fashion of analysis on their performance in each of the six aspects, namely, collocation accuracy rate, collocation associative strength, collocation density, collocation diversity, and two relevant lexical levels. The findings not only show learners' various inadequacies compared to native speakers, but also reveal the substantial discrepancies between their implicit and explicit collocational knowledge. Our result largely bears out Wray's Dual Model, and some pedagogical implications are suggested accordingly, including a learning mode shift from bottom-up to top-down to remedy the situation. |
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| ISSN: | 2630-0672 2672-9431 |
