The Use Of Collocations By Advanced Learners Of English: Noun –Noun And Adjective-Noun Collocations

The Use Of Collocations By Advanced Learners Of English: Noun –Noun And Adjective-Noun Collocations

Balıkçı, Gözde

The study‘s main aim is to find out how advanced learners of English whose mother tongue is Turkish are dealing with collocations and where these learners‘ main errors stem from. In order to have a basic insight into the sources of error, the learners‘ written works will be exploited. The students are at the department of langugage teaching education and they will be the prospective teachers of English. This paper attempts to investigate these students‘ written works to figure out to what extent they make use of collocations, their sources of errors and mistakes.

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2011-05

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