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标题：V+N miscollocations in the written production of university level students
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作者：Magdalena Zinkgräf
期刊名称：ELIA
印刷版ISSN：1576-5059
出版年度：2008
期号：8
页码：91-116
出版社：Univertsity of Seville
摘要：The study of collocation – the restricted way in which two or more words combine across texts – has recently gained much relevance. The acquisition of these combinations has proved an important obstacle for non-native speakers of a foreign language as evinced in recorded unusual combinations of words. This paper analyses nonstandard collocations present in the written production of Spanish-speaking university students of English as a foreign language (EFL), in search of recurrent patterns and strategies that may explain these inappropriate collocations as a way to contribute to EFL teaching and learning. The results show a considerable influence of learners' mother tongue, which induces them to translate literally from L1 into L2 one or both elements in any given collocation. Semantic overlap between appropriate forms and possible synonyms of either the base or the collocate appears to be another factor leading to error. The study also points to some verbs which in this particular context might require consistent and explicit teaching
关键词：second language acquisition; foreign language teaching; ;collocations; verbs; nouns; data base; written production