Volume 5
Collocation Errors Made by Arab Learners of English
Systematic and in-depth analyses of EFL learners’ lexical errors in general and of collocation errors in particular are relatively rare. This study presents empirical data verifying the informal observations and theoretic assertions that EFL learners produce ‘unnatural’ word combinations. A total of 420 collocations were found in 42 essays written by Arabic-speaking university students majoring in English.
Iranian University Students’ Preference for Verb Centered VS. Construction Cues to Sentence Structure
The present study sought to determine whether Iranian EFL learners majoring in English were more influenced by the type of verb or argument structure patterns in their interpretation of English structures. To answer this question, 108 English majoring participants took part in a sorting task which was designed to reveal the participants’ preference in sentence interpretation.
