Investigating Lexical Collocational Errors in Students’Writing Compositions: The Case of First Year Students of English at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi Ouzou.
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Date
2018
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Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
This study aims at investigating if first year students of English at
MMUTO make lexical collocational errors while writing. Then,it tries to identify the
different types of lexical collocational errors that the students commit while writing
in order to figure out the extent to which they can put words together properly. To
reach the aims of the present work ,eighty (80) exam copies of the writing module of
the academic year 2015-2016 were selected randomly from the population of first
year students to be analyzed. Thus, Error Analysis analytical framework is used to
identify the different errors in the students’ writing compositions, relying on the
theory of Michael Lewis (2000) dealing with the classification of lexical
collocations. The outcomes of the investigation show that the students can not put
lexical collocational items together in a correct way which result in their making of
errors. The most common lexical collocational errors among students are
noun+verb and verb+noun pattern . These results confirm the suggested hypotheses
of the study and maintains that students’ lack of collocational knowledge prevent
them from producing correct lexical collocations.Thus, One could notice easily their
erroneous and unnatural language while reading their writing productions. Even if
they use some strategies to cover this lack like; language transfer, synonymy
strategy and repetition and overgeneralization.
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50p.:ill;30cm.(+cd)
Keywords
Error Analysis Approach , collocational knowledge , lexical collocational errors
Citation
Linguistique Appliquée et Sémiotique Sociale.