The Impact of Verb-Noun Collocations in the Research Writing of Chinese EFL Learners

Gu Min

Article ID: 4106
Vol 7, Issue 1, 2024

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Abstract


Verb-Noun collocation in the writings of Chinese EFL Learners’ research articles focus on the correct use in general graduate the_x005fsis. The research was conducted to assess the impacts of the verb-noun collocation in research writing of Chinese EFL students in University
Science of Malaysia (USM). Among numerous methods to collocations research, corpus-based approach have been selected to use a quantitative research design, which is based on TYPE and TOKEN, to identify the various verb-nouns collocation and the frequency of occurrence.
This paper collected 11080000 verb-noun collocations from four schools and 18 graduate papers at the University of Nilai, and analyzed the
results based on inferential statistics. The findings showed that verb-noun collocations are used to report findings, sum up data, discuss result,
analyse, and carry out high frequency research in art and engineering. The result of the present paper reveal that a verb-noun collocation
among Chinese EFL students in USM has a significant effect. EFL students, however, continuously confirmed that verb-noun collocation is a
challenging aspect in vocabulary development. Brief recommendations have been provided.

Keywords


Collocation, Corpus-bases, Verb-Noun, EFL

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18686/ijmss.v7i1.4106

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