January 2017

The nature of lexical collocational errors committed by advanced Iranian learners of English

Collocations are among the pervasive features of languages, and English seems to be particularly rich in such multi-word lexemes. Since they have not received due attention pedagogically, this research aimed at identifying problems facing advanced Iranian learners of English in producing collocations. Over 100 pages of materials written by 30 participants were carefully studied and a list of lexical collocations was...

Author(s): Ali Shiravani Shiri, Firooz Sadighi, Maral Azizi and Marziyeh Nekoueizadeh