A Study on the effect of type of written exercise on learning English productive collocations (생산적 연어 학습에 효과적인 과업 유형에 대한 연구)

Buja Kim (김부자)

A Study on the effect of type of written exercise on learning English productive collocations

Modern English Education
Abbr : MEESO
2014, 15(1), pp.241-265
Publisher : The Modern English Education Society
Research Area : Humanities > English Language and Literature > English Language Teaching

Buja Kim ¹

¹서울기독대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study compared four groups (three experimental groups and one control group) to investigate the effect of type of written exercise on the acquisition of productive knowledge of English collocations by Korean college learners. The target collocations were 15 lexical collocations consisting of a verb and a noun and 15 grammatical collocations consisting of a verb and a grammatical structure. The control group learned the target collocations incidentally under a reading only condition. The three experimental groups learned them incidentally from reading and were provided with explicit instruction in three types of written exercises condition: fill-in-the-blank exercises, error correction exercises, and Korean-to-English translation exercises. The findings showed that the written exercises after reading had significant beneficial effects on productive knowledge of English collocations. For lexical collocations, fill-in-the-blank exercises were found to be the most effective, while for grammatical collocations, sentence translation was the most effective exercise.

KEYWORDS

collocations, productive knowledge, fill-in-the-blank, error correction/translation

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