چکیده:
The importance of collocation in the learning of a foreign language and the
problems that L2 learners face with in using collocations have been underscored
by researchers. There have been, however, few studies to take all types of
collocations, particularly the grammatical type, into consideration. As a
result, this study has devoted special attention to lexical and grammatical
collocations. A sample of 80 Iranian EFL learners at Shiraz University served as
participants. A multiple-choice test of collocations consisting of forty items
was adopted in the study. The data were examined and results showed that:
i) There is a significant relationship between the performance of the learners
on lexical and grammatical collocations.
ii) There is a significant difference between the performance of the learners on
different subcategories of collocations.
خلاصه ماشینی:
(1986: xxv), list the following types of lexical collocations in English: Verb + Noun ® Make a decision Adjective + Noun ® Weak tea Noun + Verb ® Alarms go off Noun1 + of + Noun2 ® A bunch of keys Adverb + Adjective ® Quite safe Verb + Adverb ® Walk heavily Different types of word combinations can be shown on a continuum as follows: Non-idiomatic Combinations Idiomatic Combinations Free combinations Restricted ombinations fixed combinations Vast majority of free combinations Different types of lexical & grammatical collocations Different types of idioms Objectives and Significance of the Study Methods of teaching English in Iran are mainly based on syntactic principles.
” (Bahns & Eldaw, 1993: 109) Hussein (1990: 130) conducted an experiment to measure the ability of Arab EFL learners to collocate words correctly in English.
Morshali (1995) has conducted comprehensive research on the learning of English lexical collocations by Iranian EFL learners.
(Gitaski, 1996: 234) Participants In this study, a sample of 80 Iranian EFL learners at Shiraz University served as participants.
The test was meant to evaluate the performance of Iranian EFL learners on both lexical and grammatical collocations.
This table also shows the performance of the participants on different subcategories of lexical collocations and grammatical collocations.
iii) Among different subcategories of grammatical collocations which were under the focus of attention in this study, Participle Adjective Preposition is the easiest to acquire and Preposition Noun is the most difficult i) one (i.
“A Cross-Sectional Study of the Acquisition of English Lexical Collocations by Iranian EFL Learners.