Collocation, as an important component of foreign language learners' competence, has attracted substantial attention from researchers on second language acquisition in the past 15 years. A wide range of empirical ...Collocation, as an important component of foreign language learners' competence, has attracted substantial attention from researchers on second language acquisition in the past 15 years. A wide range of empirical studies have been conducted, covering assessment of L2 learners' knowledge of collocations, investigation of the developmental patterns, analysis of L2 learners' collocational errors, examination of the correlation between collocations and general language skills and assessment of direct collocation instruction. The present paper reviews previous empirical studies on collocation in the field of SLA at home and abroad, and attempts to point out their limitations in order to give recommendations for further study.展开更多
文摘Collocation, as an important component of foreign language learners' competence, has attracted substantial attention from researchers on second language acquisition in the past 15 years. A wide range of empirical studies have been conducted, covering assessment of L2 learners' knowledge of collocations, investigation of the developmental patterns, analysis of L2 learners' collocational errors, examination of the correlation between collocations and general language skills and assessment of direct collocation instruction. The present paper reviews previous empirical studies on collocation in the field of SLA at home and abroad, and attempts to point out their limitations in order to give recommendations for further study.
