Vocabulary Increase and Collocation Learning A Corpus-Based Cross-se

This book highlights research that expands on our knowledge of second- language collocation acquisition. It presents original findings based on the largest collocation database to date, encompassing over 8,000 collocations: verb + noun, adjective + noun,

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Vocabulary Increase and Collocation Learning A Corpus-Based Cross-sectional Study of Chinese Learners of English

Vocabulary Increase and Collocation Learning

Haiyan Men

Vocabulary Increase and Collocation Learning A Corpus-Based Cross-sectional Study of Chinese Learners of English

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Haiyan Men Shanghai Sanda University Shanghai China

ISBN 978-981-10-5821-9 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-5822-6

ISBN 978-981-10-5822-6

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Foreword

I am pleased to have the opportunity to recommend this monograph study of the development of collocations in L2. It offers an extremely well-grounded perspective on a vital area of language learning that remains central to the research endeavours of large numbers of scholars at least since the 1980s. Dr. Men’s investigations go well beyond the themes of a great deal of earlier work on L2 collocation acquisition, where much of the existing literature has explored the question of L1–L2 collocational congruence, or otherwise. However, as Dr. Men points out here, the congruence factor may be of restricted applicability when considering scenarios where the L1 and the L2 share relatively few directly congruent items anyway, as it seems to be the case for Chinese learners of L2 English studied here. She fi