Vocabulary size and collocational knowledge of Saudi EFL university learners | ||||
| CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education | ||||
| Article 7, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 2018, Page 183-210 PDF (456.31 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/opde.2018.95969 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Aly Shokry Aly Abdel Kader Kader | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This study aims at examining the receptive vocabulary size and verb-noun collocational knowledge of Saudi EFL university learners. It also aims to investigate the relationship between their vocabulary size and their knowledge of collocations. The participants were 65 students who were enrolled in the first and final years of study at the English Department, College of Languages and Translation, AL-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. Data was collected through a vocabulary size test and a receptive collocational knowledge test. The results showed that the average vocabulary size was 2,451 word families for first year students and 4,220 word families for fourth year students. It was also found that the receptive collocational knowledge of fourth year students was significantly higher than that of first-year students. Furthermore, the results showed a significant positive relationship between the learners’ vocabulary size and their receptive knowledge of collocations. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| collocations; receptive vocabulary size; receptive knowledge; EFL university learners | ||||
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