A Study on Learning English Collocations Among the 2nd Year Students of English Department, ULIS,...
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Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1. Statement of the problem and rationale of the study When native speakers learn their own language in a natural setting, they can quickly pick up common word patterns through being immersed in the language and by relying on their intuitions. This type of implicit knowledge is acquired unconsciously through frequent exposure to the strings of words and set phrases encountered in everyday communicative interaction (Kirsner, 1994). In the case of non-native learners, however, exposure to the target language is not so readily available and opportunities for implicit learning are greatly reduced. They therefore do not have access to the significant store of core words and collocations that form the basis of native speaker fluency. In particular, they lack the ability for native-like selection (Pawley & Syder, 1983) in that they are less able to choose the preferred linguistic sequence from a number of grammatically acceptable alternatives. They therefore do not have the same level of fluency and pragmatic competence that they possess in their first language. (Brian & Ohtake, 2003) 1
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