VIETNAMESE EFL STUDENTS’ USE OF LEXICAL COLLOCATIONS IN OPINION ESSAYS

  • Ngoc Quynh Phuong Tran
Keywords: Vietnamese EFL students, lexical collocations, opinion essays, patterns of use, errors

Abstract

This study investigated the use of lexical collocations and related collocational
errors in opinion essays written by Vietnamese English as a foreign language (EFL) students.
Each of the fifty second-year English majors at a Vietnamese university wrote an opinion
essay as a class writing test in 60 minutes. The data was analyzed using AntConc (An thony,
2021), a freeware corpus analysis tool. The results revealed that adjective-noun collocations
were the most prevalent, whereas adverb-adjective and verb-adjective were the least common
types. Omission of the morpheme -s in plural nouns and inappropriate word components of
lexical collocations were common errors made by students. Besides, errors related to
adjective-noun collocations were the most popular among all lexical collocation types.
Pedagogical implications are discussed to assist students to enhance collocational use in
writing.

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Published
2022-12-09