Resenha de Vocabulary increase and collocation leaning: a corpus-based cross-sectional study of chinese learners of english

• Autor(a) principal: Goulart, Larissa
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/46457
• topic: Segunda Língua; Linguagem; Letras

Collocations have been extensively studied in research on writing and second language acquisition, either from a psycholinguistic approach or from a corpus linguistics approach. The research reported in Vocabulary Increase and Collocation Leaning: A corpus-based crosssectional Study of Chinese Learners of English seeks to fill a gap in the current literature about collocations, namely the use of collocations by second language (L2) students across levels of proficiency. Men’s study investigates how proficiency development affects the use of verb + noun (VN) collocations. The book is aimed at researchers interested in formulaic language or in language development in L2 writing. Hayan Men (2018) motivates her research by showing that previous studies focusing on the use of collocations in texts written by native speakers has demonstrated that L1 writing contains large amounts of formulaic language. Therefore, it is important for L2 students to produce these structures appropriately in order to produce fluent texts. When it comes to previous research, Men (2018) argues that other studies have shown that the knowledge of formulaic language does not develop at the same pace as proficiency level. Nevertheless, these studies did not investigate the factors influencing collocation lag in second language acquisition. Taking this into consideration, the researcher seeks to investigate how the use of collocations develops in a corpus of Chinese students. The research questions address issues such as if the use of lexical and delexical verbs influence the use of collocations, if the semantic field of the verbs used influences the correct or incorrect use of collocations, and how the development of VN collocation compares to the development of noun + noun (NN) and adjective + noun (AN) collocations. [...]