Collocational knowledge, use and oral proficiency of EFL learners

ISBN-13: 9783845401805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 136 str.

Karim Sadeghi;Fatemeh Panahifar

Opis

Learning a second or foreign language has challenged many a learner, and there is no shortage of theories proposed by specialists in a hope to make this intriguing task a bit simpler. The fact is that we are still far away from a perfect understanding of the processes involved in learning a second language which make it so different from acquiring L1. What we do know for sure is, however, that the ability to speak a foreign language requires more than a mere knowledge of its grammatical and semantic rules. Learners must acquire the knowledge of how native speakers use the language naturally by capitalizing on a wealth of prefabricated forms such as collocations and idioms. Based on such an assumption, this book sheds light on the relationship between collocational knowledge, speaking proficiency, and oral use of collocations in an EFL context, with a focus on the role L1 transfer plays in their production.

O autorze

Karim Sadeghi has a PhD in TESOL from the University of East Anglia, UK and is the Head of English Language Department at Urmia University. His research focuses on assessment and evaluation in ELT. Fatemeh Panahifar has an MA in TEFL and is interested in researching learner corpus.