Cooperative corpus consultation for acquisition of adjective + preposition collocations
Teaching collocations through corpus consultation can highlight not only linguistic patterns but also association between meaning and patterns. However, previous studies have reported learners’ problems during corpus consultation. Corpus consultation refers to learning activities in which a group...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2018
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| Institution: | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Teaching collocations through corpus consultation can highlight not only linguistic patterns
but also association between meaning and patterns. However, previous studies have reported
learners’ problems during corpus consultation. Corpus consultation refers to learning
activities in which a group of learners explore concordance lines in a corpus as to observe
language patterns. It is assumed that the integration of group work into corpus consultation
tends to facilitate the learning process. The study therefore investigated the effects of
cooperative corpus consultation on the acquisition of L2 English adjective + preposition
collocations. The participants were 74 first-year Thai undergraduate students divided into a
control and an experimental group with 38 and 36 learners, respectively. The instruments
were corpus-based materials and activities covering both paper-based and online activities, a
pre-test and a post-test. While the control group consulted the corpus individually, the
experimental group employed the cooperative corpus consultation approach before both
groups took the post-test. The statistical results showed a significant difference in the pre-test
and the post-test results of the experimental group, in both production and perception of the
targeted collocations. The findings suggested that cooperative corpus consultation could
promote discussion and cooperation in the experimental group, resulting in the acquisition of
the adjective + preposition collocations. |
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