English and Arabic have different types of collocations, i.e., groups words that go together. This study aims to explore the difficulties Saudi undergraduate student-translators in translating word + preposition collocations such as verb preposition, noun adjective Arabic. A corpus faulty word+ was collected from students-translators’ graduation projects identify translation errors, strategies,...

Acquiring vocabulary has always been recognized as a significant and challenging part of language learning process. In this study, the researcher examined the extent to which form recall of target lexical items by learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) is affected by a) repetition and b) by the type of target item; single words versus collocations. The treatment consisted of non-commun...

  One of the most problematic areas in foreign language learning is collocation. It is often seen as arbitrary and an overwhelming obstacle to the achievement of nativelike fluency. Current second language (L2) instruction research has encouraged the use of collaborative output tasks in L2 classrooms. This study examined the effects of two types of output tasks (editing and cloze) on the learni...