Error analysis approach to study the use of collocations in foreign language writing
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2014
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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The present study aims at identifying, classifying and analyzing collocation errors made by third year english LMD students at Larbi Ben M'Hidi university, Oum-El-Bouaghi. It aims also to determine whether the learners made more grammatical collocation errors than lexical ones. In addition, it will discuss the main sources of these errors. For the purpose of examining our hypothesis, a descriptive analytical approach was conducted in which 17 students' exam copies were randomly selected and analyzed. The procedural analysis of ellis (1997) of error analysis was adopted in order to know the source of error.The unacceptable and lexical collocation errors were identified based on the modified version originally proposed by Benson and, et al (1986) and Chen (2000). The Oxford Collocation Dictionary for Students of english was employed to analyze the students' collocation errors and to provide suggestions for correction. On the basis of the analysis of students' productions and the collected data, our alternative hypothesis has been confirmed in that students' errors in the use of english collocations have other sources than the negative transfer.
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Teaching : english : collocation errors