Overview
- Provides panoramic coverage of collocation learning
- Highlights the congruence factor in collocation learning
- Suggests an efficient way to learn collocation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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. The findings 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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Haiyan Men received her PhD in applied linguistics from Birmingham City University, and is currently a lecturer at the School of English, Shanghai Sanda University. Dr. Men’s chief interests are in corpus linguistics and second language acquisition, particularly the examination of language in corpora.  She is currently researching synonym distinction through collocate information revealed in corpora.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vocabulary Increase and Collocation Learning
Book Subtitle: A Corpus-Based Cross-sectional Study of Chinese Learners of English
Authors: Haiyan Men
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5822-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5821-9Published: 12 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5500-4Published: 09 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5822-6Published: 04 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 206
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Learning & Instruction, Language Teaching, Applied Linguistics