Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Nesselhauf, Nadja (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam J. Benjamins Pub. Co. © 2005
Series:	Studies in corpus linguistics v. 14
Subjects:	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General Corpuslinguïstiek Sprache Language and languages > Study and teaching Phraseology > Study and teaching Kollokation Interimsprache Englisch Korpus > Linguistik Hochschulschrift
Online Access:	DE-29
Item Description:	Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Basel, 2003 under title: Collocations in the English of advanced learners : a study based on a learner corpus Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-320) and index Collocations in native and non-native speaker language -- Investigating collocations in a learner corpus -- The use of collocations by advanced learners -- Building material of non-native-like collocations -- Factors correlating with learners' difficulties with collocations -- Implications of the findings Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first time comprehensively investigated. On the basis of a learner corpus, idiosyncratic collocation use by learners is uncovered, the building material of learner collocations examined, and the factors that contribute to the difficulty of certain groups of collocations identified. An extensive discussion of the implications of the results for the foreign language classroom is also presented, and the contentious issue of the relation of corpus
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (xii, 331 pages)
ISBN:	9789027294739