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Zughoul, Muhammad Raji and Hussein Abdul-Fattah. 2003. Translational Collocational Strategies of Arab Learners of English: A Study in Lexical Semantics. Babel 49 (1) : 59–81.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
ISBN
0521-9744
Journal DOI
10.1075/babel

Annotation

The present study confirms the writers’ hypothesis that Arab learners of English at all levels face difficulty with English collocations. The study also identified, exemplified and described the communicative strategies implemented by the subjects in their attempts to convey the English meaning. The findings have substantiated the role of the NL in FL production as well as the need for explicit instructional focus on collocation in school and university.