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Effectiveness of Corpus Consultation in Teaching Verb+Noun Collocations to Advanced ELT Students

Senem YILDIZ
Mehmet AKINCI
Pages
93–111
Publication Date
2022-10-18
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The questionnaire data showed that the participants found the instruction with the use of corpus more useful and effective for learning V+N collocations than instruction without.

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Objective & Hypothesis:This study examined the effectiveness of data-driven learning (DDL), explicit instruction and these two methods combined in teaching verb+noun (V+N) collocations to advanced Turkish learners of English.
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Key Findings & Data:Results revealed a statistically significant difference between the three groups in their recognition accuracy of V+N collocations.
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This study examined the effectiveness of data-driven learning (DDL), explicit instruction and these two methods combined in teaching verb+noun (V+N) collocations to advanced Turkish learners of English. Recognition accuracy of V+N collocations was measured along with participants’ judgment about the acceptability of these collocations. It also explored the opinions of learners about using corpus in learning V+N collocations. Quantitative data were analyzed via a one-way independent analysis of variance and descriptive statistics. Results revealed a statistically significant difference between the three groups in their recognition accuracy of V+N collocations. While the Explicit-Instruction (EI) Group and the Combined (C) Group scored significantly higher than the Data-Driven Learning (D) Group, the means of the EI-Group and C-Group did not significantly differ. With respect to the judgment about the acceptability of V+N collocations, the EI-Group significantly outperformed the D-Group; but the difference between the EI-Group and the C-Group; or between the C-Group and the D-Group was not statistically significant. The questionnaire data showed that the participants found the instruction with the use of corpus more useful and effective for learning V+N collocations than instruction without.

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YILDIZ, S., AKINCI, M. (2022). Effectiveness of Corpus Consultation in Teaching Verb+Noun Collocations to Advanced ELT Students. Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Cilt: 3 - Sayı: 1, 93–111. https://ajindex.com/articles/507067

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