چکیده:
The notion of expectancy grammar as a key to understanding the nature of
psychologically real processes that underlie language use is introduced by Oller
(1979). A central issue in this notion is that expectancy generating systems are
constructed and modified in the course of language acquisition. Thus, one of the
characteristics of language proficiency is that it consists of such an expectancy
generating system. Therefore, it is claimed that for a proposed measure to qualify as
a language test, it must invoke the expectancy system or grammar of the examinee.
This article aimed at finding the relationship between textuality of a text and its
realization in expectancy grammar. To this end, texts with high and low lexical
collocational density (LCD) as a means of reaching textuality in a text are given to
participants in the form of cloze test. Texts with high and low lexical collocational
density were selected to act as cloze tests and administered on EFL learners. An
independant t-test was used to analyse the mean of the scores obtained in pairs of
low and high LCD texts. The results showd that texts with high lexical collocational
density enjoy higher degrees of readibility and are suitable for cloze tests. In other
words, the group who took cloze tests with high lexical collocational density
outpeformed the group whose cloze tests had been prepared on texts with low
lexical collocational density.
خلاصه ماشینی:
A Correlational Study of Expectancy Grammar¶s Manifestation on Cloze Test and Lexical Collocational Density Kazem Pouralvar, Assisstant Professor of TEFL, Faculty of Multimedia, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Tabriz, Iran Email: k.
To this end, texts with high and low lexical collocational density (LCD) as a means of reaching textuality in a text are given to participants in the form of cloze test.
On the basis of what has gone before, the following reseach question and hypotheses are supposed: RQ: Is there a meaningful relationship between the degree of lexical collocational density of text and the learners¶ performance on cloze tests?
Null hypothesis: There is not a meaningful relationship between the degree of lexical collocational density of text and learners¶ performance on cloze tests.
So it is also assumed that students taking cloze tests on high LCD texts would perform better than those who 182 The Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances, Volume 7, Issue 1, Winter and Spring, 2019, pp.
This study tried to investigate this possible relationship between the learners¶ expectancy grammar which is realized in the form of a cloze test and any effect that the lexical collocational density, as a significant tool for creating cohesion in a text and increasing reading comprehension, might possibily have on the learners¶ performance on such a test.
This research tried to look for a relationship between these two notions namely the Expectancy Grammar, realized in cloze test procedure, and cohesion of a text, created by lexical collocations.