The development of L2 collocational familiarity and its relationship with collocational frequency and congruency.

ABSTRACT: The present study took L2 English learners of different levels in China as subjects to investigate the relationship between collocational familiarity and collocational frequency as well as L1-L2 congruency, and then explored the development of the above relationship as L2 proficiency develops. The results showed that: a moderate positive correlation existed between familiarity and frequency, and the correlation increased with proficiency; a moderate positive correlation also existed between familiarity and congruency, but the correlation decreased with proficiency. Based on previous studies and the present findings, the research group infer that: low familiarity collocations tend to be represented and processed in analytic way and same-translation effect helps accelerate the semantic acces

SUBMITTER: Lou J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11247018 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature