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VOCABULARY INCREASE AND COLLOCATION LEARNING - ...

This book highlights research that expands on our knowledge of second- language collocation
acquisition. It presents original findings based on the largest collocation database to date 
encompassing over 8 000 collocations: verb + noun  adjective + noun  and noun + noun. These
collocations  collected from a one-million-learner corpus  were not confined to English as a
foreign language (EFL) learners at a particular proficiency level  but also included learners
at three levels. As such  the book provides a panoramic view regarding L2 collocation
acquisition  not only in terms of learners' acquisition of different types of collocations  but
in terms of the developmental patterns in L2 collocation learning. One major discovery is that
there is a collocation lag as learners' proficiency levels rise  which is associated with
vocabulary increase  in particular semantic domains-a remarkable insight for second-language
acquisition researchers  English teachers and EFL learners alike. Thefindings reported shed new
light on how collocations are acquired by EFL learners  offering guidance on how they can best
be taught. In closing  the book discusses pedagogical aspects that arise from considering how
learners can be helped with collocation learning.

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