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Verb-Noun Collocations in Second Language Writing: A Corpus Analysis of Learners' English
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Laufer, Batia; Waldman, Tina – Language Learning, 2011
The present study investigates the use of English verb-noun collocations in the writing of native speakers of Hebrew at three proficiency levels. For this purpose, we compiled a learner corpus that consists of about 300,000 words of argumentative and descriptive essays. For comparison purposes, we selected LOCNESS, a corpus of young adult native…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Young Adults, Native Speakers