Neshkovska, Silvana (2019) THE “WELFARE” OF ENGLISH COLLOCATIONS AT THE HANDS OF MACEDONIAN STUDENTS OF ENGLISH. P A L I M P S E S T International Journal for Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Research, 4 (7). pp. 241-250.
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Abstract
The lexicon of the English language abounds with collocations.
Collocations are, in fact, essential for both oral and written discourse as they make discourse
sound natural, native-like, colorful, versatile and easy to understand. While native speakers
of English experience almost no problems with collocations, non-native speakers majoring
in English, very frequently struggle hard to develop native-like or near native-like
collocational competence.
This particular study investigates how Macedonian students majoring in English
deal with English collocations. In fact, the study aims at determining whether students face
less collocation-related difficulties as their studies advance. Also, the study makes an
attempt to disclose whether Macedonian students of English are more adept at producing
English collocations or at understanding the meaning of specific English collocations.
Finally, the accent is put on the two different types of collocations - congruent and
incongruent collocations, in order to ascertain which if these two types of collocations is
handled better by the students. For the purposes of the study, a questionnaire with 40
sentences, 20 in Macedonian and 20 in English, was distributed among 40 English majors at
the Faculty of Education in Bitola.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Humanities > Languages and literature |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Education |
| Depositing User: | Prof. d-r Silvana Neshkovska |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2023 05:27 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2023 07:50 |
| URI: | https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/5114 |
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