TAILIEUCHUNG - Using corpora to teach collocations in a university context

English as Foreign Language students tend to learn vocabulary in word isolation, not in chunks or collocations which produces meager results in students’ collocational competence and lexical resources. In addition, a corpus-assisted method is used in this project because of its significant effectiveness in bringing real-world language use or authentic materials in teaching and learning collocations. | rjpTT TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC SƯ PHẠM TP HỒ CHÍ MINH . TẠP CHÍ KHOA HỌC HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION JOURNAL OF SCIENCE ISSN 1859-3100 KHOA HỌC GIÁO DỤC EDUCATION SCIENCE Tập 16 Số 8 2019 275-300 Vol. 16 No. 8 2019 275-300 Email tapchikhoahoc@ Website http Research Article USING CORPORA TO TEACH COLLOCATIONS IN A UNIVERSITY CONTEXT Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen Faculty of English Hanoi National University of Education Corresponding author Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen Email nguyenthanhhuyen2111@ Received April 18 2019 Revised July 13 2019 Accepted July 18 2019 ABSTRACT English as Foreign Language students tend to learn vocabulary in word isolation not in chunks or collocations which produces meager results in students collocational competence and lexical resources. In addition a corpus-assisted method is used in this project because of its significant effectiveness in bringing real-world language use or authentic materials in teaching and learning collocations. Therefore this article investigates the potential role of using corpora and concordances in teaching and learning collocations with a view to improving university students collocational competence in academic writing. To do this an experiment was conducted among 30 third-year students in the English Faculty of Hanoi National University pseudonym who had little or no previous knowledge of collocations as well as corpora. Students were in both the experimental group in a six-week English unit which a corpus-assisted method was applied for the experimental group and a traditional or rule-based method was used for the control group to find out the differences and improvement among groups of students. They were required to take part in different tests in different time periods including before immediately after and two weeks after the course. The results of these tests were analyzed carefully in terms of learners collocational use in academic writing specifically premodifier-noun .

• Kỹ năng đọc tiếng Anh
• Corpus based
• Corpus assisted
• Lexical approach
• Authentic materials
• Specifically premodifier noun collocations