A data-driven contrastive study on Malay ESL learners’ use of lexical verbs and verb-noun collocations in argumentative writing / Shazila Abdullah

A data-driven contrastive study on Malay ESL learners’ use of lexical verbs and verb-noun collocations in argumentative writing / Shazila Abdullah

Learner writing is often characterized by linguistic errors, especially in lexical verbs, which can contribute to communicative incompetence. It is also generally known that verb-noun collocations are a characteristic of native writing. The main objective of this thesis is to investigate the linguis...

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Main Author: Abdullah, Shazila
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2015
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Malaysia
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19589/
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spelling uitm-195892018-06-12T06:14:46Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19589/ A data-driven contrastive study on Malay ESL learners’ use of lexical verbs and verb-noun collocations in argumentative writing / Shazila Abdullah Abdullah, Shazila Malaysia Learner writing is often characterized by linguistic errors, especially in lexical verbs, which can contribute to communicative incompetence. It is also generally known that verb-noun collocations are a characteristic of native writing. The main objective of this thesis is to investigate the linguistic errors made by non-native learners and to suggest ways how they can improve their level of proficiency. Previous studies have looked into the occurrences of either lexical verbs or verb-noun collocations with little emphasis on the phraseology of verb-noun collocations formed from commonly used lexical verbs. Based on these premises, the thesis explores the use of lexical verbs and verb-noun collocations in two learner corpora, one of which is a native learner corpus and the other a specific group of non-native learners, i.e. Malay ESL learners. The data-driven analysis specifically adopted for this study allows for a focus on the most commonly used lexical verbs and verb-noun collocations. Furthermore, an in-depth contrastive interlingual analysis between the corpora of native and non-native learners enables the researcher to uncover the difficulties that learners face in using these lexical items… Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2015 Book Section PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19589/1/ABS_SHAZILA%20ABDULLAH%20TDRA%20VOL%208%20IGS%2015.pdf Abdullah, Shazila (2015) A data-driven contrastive study on Malay ESL learners’ use of lexical verbs and verb-noun collocations in argumentative writing / Shazila Abdullah. In: The Doctoral Research Abstracts. IGS Biannual Publication, 8 (8). Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM, Shah Alam.
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A data-driven contrastive study on Malay ESL learners’ use of lexical verbs and verb-noun collocations in argumentative writing / Shazila Abdullah
description Learner writing is often characterized by linguistic errors, especially in lexical verbs, which can contribute to communicative incompetence. It is also generally known that verb-noun collocations are a characteristic of native writing. The main objective of this thesis is to investigate the linguistic errors made by non-native learners and to suggest ways how they can improve their level of proficiency. Previous studies have looked into the occurrences of either lexical verbs or verb-noun collocations with little emphasis on the phraseology of verb-noun collocations formed from commonly used lexical verbs. Based on these premises, the thesis explores the use of lexical verbs and verb-noun collocations in two learner corpora, one of which is a native learner corpus and the other a specific group of non-native learners, i.e. Malay ESL learners. The data-driven analysis specifically adopted for this study allows for a focus on the most commonly used lexical verbs and verb-noun collocations. Furthermore, an in-depth contrastive interlingual analysis between the corpora of native and non-native learners enables the researcher to uncover the difficulties that learners face in using these lexical items…
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author Abdullah, Shazila
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title A data-driven contrastive study on Malay ESL learners’ use of lexical verbs and verb-noun collocations in argumentative writing / Shazila Abdullah
title_short A data-driven contrastive study on Malay ESL learners’ use of lexical verbs and verb-noun collocations in argumentative writing / Shazila Abdullah
title_full A data-driven contrastive study on Malay ESL learners’ use of lexical verbs and verb-noun collocations in argumentative writing / Shazila Abdullah
title_fullStr A data-driven contrastive study on Malay ESL learners’ use of lexical verbs and verb-noun collocations in argumentative writing / Shazila Abdullah
title_full_unstemmed A data-driven contrastive study on Malay ESL learners’ use of lexical verbs and verb-noun collocations in argumentative writing / Shazila Abdullah
title_sort data-driven contrastive study on malay esl learners’ use of lexical verbs and verb-noun collocations in argumentative writing / shazila abdullah
publisher Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM
publishDate 2015
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19589/
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