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Testing collocational knowledge of Yemeni EFL university students at Universiti Utara Malaysia
Banboua, Nabil Mohammed S1.
It is commonly acknowledged that collocations play an important role in the field of ESL/EFL
acquisition. Previous seminal studies have reported students’ development of collocational
knowledge and use of collocations regardless the difficulties students may encounter in learning
collocations, specifically, Arab students. The present study focuses on students’ collocational
knowledge, particularly, Yemeni EFL university students who were attending an Intensive
English Course (IEC) at UUM/Malaysia. The data was collected from only five Yemeni students
(two postgraduate and three undergraduate). Those were the only Yemeni students who were
attending the IEC. All of the participants were male students. The participants’ collocational
knowledge was tested by a Multiple-choice Collocational Test (MCT). The results of the
statistical analysis revealed that participants’ collocational knowledge was less than the expected.
Moreover, the results concluded that students’ lack of knowledge of collocations was due to the
fact that collocations were not of a focus in teaching English as a foreign language in schools.
The study also ended up with recommendations for future research.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
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