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題名 Acquisition of L2 Collocation Competence A Corpus Analysis of Exclusivity, Directionality, Dispersion and Novel Usage
作者 Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien
貢獻者 臺灣英語教學期刊
關鍵詞 collocation  ;  writing assessment  ;  delta P  ;  mutual information  ;  inverse document frequency
日期 2021-04
上傳時間 17-Nov-2021 11:42:48 (UTC+8)
摘要 This study evaluates the development of L2 collocational competence in texts written by learners of differing proficiency levels, compared to native speaker collocation patterns from a reference corpus. We address: (1) whether learners develop their collocation competence as their proficiency grows ; and (2) How is this development mediated by different aspects of collocability, i.e., exclusivity, directionality, and dispersion? Effective quantitative metrics based on the native corpus were assigned to each bigram type in L2 texts, covering important aspects of collocability. Correlations between the text-based average scores of each metric and L2 proficiency were analyzed to examine the development of collocability in each dimension. Our results show that exclusivity increases with learner proficiency. When directionality is considered, learners develop native-likeness in forward-directed word selection across all levels ; backward competence, however, improves more markedly at advanced levels. Our analysis also suggests learners start to use less deviant collocation patterns but more domain-specific bundles as their proficiency grows.
關聯 臺灣英語教學期刊, 18(1), 29-61
資料類型 article
DOI https://doi.org/10.30397/TJTESOL.202104_18(1).0002
dc.contributor 臺灣英語教學期刊-
dc.creator (作者) Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien-
dc.date (日期) 2021-04-
dc.date.accessioned 17-Nov-2021 11:42:48 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 17-Nov-2021 11:42:48 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 17-Nov-2021 11:42:48 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/137826-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) This study evaluates the development of L2 collocational competence in texts written by learners of differing proficiency levels, compared to native speaker collocation patterns from a reference corpus. We address: (1) whether learners develop their collocation competence as their proficiency grows ; and (2) How is this development mediated by different aspects of collocability, i.e., exclusivity, directionality, and dispersion? Effective quantitative metrics based on the native corpus were assigned to each bigram type in L2 texts, covering important aspects of collocability. Correlations between the text-based average scores of each metric and L2 proficiency were analyzed to examine the development of collocability in each dimension. Our results show that exclusivity increases with learner proficiency. When directionality is considered, learners develop native-likeness in forward-directed word selection across all levels ; backward competence, however, improves more markedly at advanced levels. Our analysis also suggests learners start to use less deviant collocation patterns but more domain-specific bundles as their proficiency grows.-
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dc.relation (關聯) 臺灣英語教學期刊, 18(1), 29-61-
dc.subject (關鍵詞) collocation  ;  writing assessment  ;  delta P  ;  mutual information  ;  inverse document frequency-
dc.title (題名) Acquisition of L2 Collocation Competence A Corpus Analysis of Exclusivity, Directionality, Dispersion and Novel Usage-
dc.type (資料類型) article-
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.30397/TJTESOL.202104_18(1).0002-
dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.30397/TJTESOL.202104_18(1).0002-