A comparative study of collocational competence between learners of english as a foreign language and learners of english as a second language
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2017-10
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UB, FLSH
Abstract
The present study compares the collocational competence between EFL and ESL students majoring in English. Different researchers claimed that collocations pose a major problem for both EFL and ESL groups of learners. Participants, English majors from the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Burundi and South African English majors who were taking English as a course at the North-West University, were administered the same collocation test. The test consisted of 30 collocations from the Academic Word List.
The results of the test showed that both EFL and ESL learners of English performed poorly on collocations from Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List and confirmed the statement by Nesselhauf ( 2005) and Laufer and Waldman (2011 ) that collocations still cause difficulties to L2 students even at advanced levels.
The contribution of this study is that it shows the problematic nature of oollocations among EFL and ESL learners of English by comparing the two groups of learners whose English is not their first language and whose linguistic background is not the same.
This study also proposes what should be done for a successful te~ching and learning of collocations by EFL and ESL teachers and learners of English, including the teaching of collocations in the two countries through Nizonkiza'sCollocation Web Model (CWM) as it proved to be effective.
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A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree "Licence en Langue et Litterature Anglaises "