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| | | Article Name : | | | Investigating Corpus Usage by Sudanese
Undergraduates in Learning English Collocations | | Author Name : | | | IBRAHIM ALSAFI ABDULDAFI, ABDALLA YASSIN ABDALLA | | Publisher : | | | Bridge Center | | Article URL : |  | | | Abstract : | | | This paper aims to investigate the use of corpora by Sudanese
undergraduates in learning English collocations. To do so, the
quantitative approach is adopted and then second year students were
chosen as the study subjects. These subjects study Biomedical
Engineering at Bayan College of Science and Technology, Khartoum.
To do the experiment, the students were divided into two groups; the
control group in which students were taught collocations (delexical
verbs) through the traditional strategy, and the experimental group in
which students were taught how to use corpora and then taught the
same collocations using British National Corpus (BNC). After the
experiment, results of the post-test revealed that while the performance
of the two groups was improved in the post-test, the performance of the
experimental group was significantly better than that of the control
group. It is thus concluded that corpora have the potentiality of
enhancing learners collocational knowledge and hence their language
proficiency. This strengthens the role of corpora in EFL/ESL context. | | Keywords : | | | collocational competence, language proficiency, corpora,
context, language learning. |
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