Frequency and English Receptive Collocational Knowledge
This paper presents an investigation of Chinese freshmen's English receptive collocational knowledge and its relationship with vocabulary breadth knowledge and lexical frequency using the British National Corpus-based vocabulary size test and a collocational knowledge test.The results revealed that the participants had poor performances in English collocational knowledge,which lagged behind the development of vocabulary size,there was a relatively high correlation between receptive collocational knowledge and vocabulary size(r=0.51)although the correlation was not significant for the low vocabulary group,and there was a low correlation between receptive knowledge and lexical frequency(word frequency and collocational frequency)(r=0.21);for high vocabulary size group,the correlation was slightly higher than it was for the low vocabulary size group.The results revealed the neglect of collocation when teaching English vocabulary at primary and high schools,which suggests that a fundamental change is needed in English teaching pedagogies in the initial stages by moving from"grammar+words"model towards"focusing on collocation"teaching,and that sufficient language input should be provided to enhance the frequency effect of collocation.
Chinese freshmenvocabulary breadth knowledgelexical frequencyreceptive collocational knowledge"words+grammar"model
万方数据
维普
