Some explanations for the slow acquisition of L2 collocations
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- Frank Boers, Seth Lindstromberg and June Eyckmans (UGent)
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- Abstract
- Collocations have attracted a fair amount of attention from SLA researchers in recent years. Even though many collocations are made up of words that must be familiar to intermediate learners (e.g., make a mistake), there is a growing body of evidence that even advanced learners often fail to combine words the way native speakers do (e.g., *do a mistake). We first review a collection of explanations for this, mostly concerned with learners’ attention (or lack thereof) to (parts of) collocations. We then turn to a factor that – to our knowledge – has been under-researched in the context of L2 collocation learning, namely phonological properties. We report a small-scale study the results of which suggest that certain common kinds of phonological repetition across the constituent words of collocations can hamper their recall. Given the long list of hindrances to incidental L2 collocation acquisition, it must be concluded that the calls for explicit attention to collocation learning in contemporary language pedagogy are probably justified.
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- phonology, attention, WORKING-MEMORY, Collocations, second language acquisition, memory, SEQUENCES, LEARNERS, ENGLISH, 2ND-LANGUAGE, FORMULAIC LANGUAGE, LEXICAL CHUNKS, SERIAL-RECALL, PHONOLOGICAL SIMILARITY, SHORT-TERM-MEMORY
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-5645286
- MLA
- Boers, Frank, et al. “Some Explanations for the Slow Acquisition of L2 Collocations.” VIAL-VIGO INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, vol. 11, 2014, pp. 41–62.
- APA
- Boers, F., Lindstromberg, S., & Eyckmans, J. (2014). Some explanations for the slow acquisition of L2 collocations. VIAL-VIGO INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, 11, 41–62.
- Chicago author-date
- Boers, Frank, Seth Lindstromberg, and June Eyckmans. 2014. “Some Explanations for the Slow Acquisition of L2 Collocations.” VIAL-VIGO INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS 11: 41–62.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Boers, Frank, Seth Lindstromberg, and June Eyckmans. 2014. “Some Explanations for the Slow Acquisition of L2 Collocations.” VIAL-VIGO INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS 11: 41–62.
- Vancouver
- 1.Boers F, Lindstromberg S, Eyckmans J. Some explanations for the slow acquisition of L2 collocations. VIAL-VIGO INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS. 2014;11:41–62.
- IEEE
- [1]F. Boers, S. Lindstromberg, and J. Eyckmans, “Some explanations for the slow acquisition of L2 collocations,” VIAL-VIGO INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, vol. 11, pp. 41–62, 2014.
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abstract = {{Collocations have attracted a fair amount of attention from SLA researchers in recent years. Even though many collocations are made up of words that must be familiar to intermediate learners (e.g., make a mistake), there is a growing body of evidence that even advanced learners often fail to combine words the way native speakers do (e.g., *do a mistake). We first review a collection of explanations for this, mostly concerned with learners’ attention (or lack thereof) to (parts of) collocations. We then turn to a factor that – to our knowledge – has been under-researched in the context of L2 collocation learning, namely phonological properties. We report a small-scale study the results of which suggest that certain common kinds of phonological repetition across the constituent words of collocations can hamper their recall. Given the long list of hindrances to incidental L2 collocation acquisition, it must be concluded that the calls for explicit attention to collocation learning in contemporary language pedagogy are probably justified.}},
author = {{Boers, Frank and Lindstromberg, Seth and Eyckmans, June}},
issn = {{1697-0381}},
journal = {{VIAL-VIGO INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS}},
keywords = {{phonology,attention,WORKING-MEMORY,Collocations,second language acquisition,memory,SEQUENCES,LEARNERS,ENGLISH,2ND-LANGUAGE,FORMULAIC LANGUAGE,LEXICAL CHUNKS,SERIAL-RECALL,PHONOLOGICAL SIMILARITY,SHORT-TERM-MEMORY}},
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pages = {{41--62}},
title = {{Some explanations for the slow acquisition of L2 collocations}},
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