The paper presents an investigation of the extent and nature of cross-linguistic influence on both L2 and L1 phraseological competence of advanced Polish learners of English. We review relevant research studies, which describe various types of collocational deviation from native speaker norms in the language production of advanced learners, and indicate that the collocational choices of learners may be affected by their L1, which results either in incorrect collocations, or in patterns of underuse or overuse.
We administered two acceptability judgment tests to 91 Polish advanced learners of English, aged 20–22. The collocations used in the test could be classified with respect to two criteria: firstly, they were either typical or unusual collocations; secondly, they were either congruent with their L1 or L2 equivalents or not. Despite the fact that there is both empirical and theoretical support for the idea that learners may show a preference for those L2 collocations which are congruent with L1, our findings do not support this hypothesis. There is no obvious pattern of cross-linguistic influence emerging from the data. The results of this study seem to give the picture of advanced learners who function in their L2 independently of the L1.
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Cao, Dung & Richard Badger
2023. Cross-linguistic influence on the use of L2 collocations: the case of Vietnamese learners. Applied Linguistics Review 14:3 ► pp. 421 ff.
Crossley, Scott & Thomas Lee Salsbury
2011. The development of lexical bundle accuracy and production in English second language speakers. IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 49:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Laufer, Batia & Tina Waldman
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Lundell, Fanny Forsberg
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Prentice, Julia & Fanny Forsberg Lundell
2021. Productive collocation knowledge and advanced CEFR-levels in Swedish as a second language: A conceptual replication of Forsberg Lundell, Lindqvist & Edmonds (2018). Journal of the European Second Language Association 5:1 ► pp. 44 ff.
Rogers, James, Amanda Müller, Frank E. Daulton, Paul Dickinson, Cosmin Florescu, Gordon Reid & Tim Stoeckel
2021. The creation and application of a large-scale corpus-based academic multi-word unit list. English for Specific Purposes 62 ► pp. 142 ff.
Wolter, Brent & Henrik Gyllstad
2011. Collocational Links in the L2 Mental Lexicon and the Influence of L1 Intralexical Knowledge. Applied Linguistics 32:4 ► pp. 430 ff.
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