Deliberate teaching of collocations - an intervention study of Czech upper-intermediate EFL students
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=NfiLzfSX9R" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=NfiLzfSX9R</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23362189.2023.2918" target="_blank" >10.14712/23362189.2023.2918</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Deliberate teaching of collocations - an intervention study of Czech upper-intermediate EFL students
Original language description
Collocation knowledge is claimed to be poor even among upper-intermediate and advanced learners of English as a second language, which implies that not enough attention is being drawn to these lexical items in lessons. To address this problem, we designed a 12-week teaching intervention in which the participants (39 students of Charles University in Prague) were divided into two groups: an experimental group with an intensive explicit collocation focus (20) and a control group with no such care dedicated to collocations in the input given (19). The division of the students was made in such a way that the groups were equal in terms of the variables which tend to influence the learning process the most, namely language aptitude, anxiety, motivation, and learning strategies. The results showed that the experimental group achieved significantly higher scores for collocation knowledge. No significant difference was found between the groups in understanding of word meanings. Deliberate teaching of collocations with systematic revision and practice thus proved to be more effective than meaning-focused teaching of individual words.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Pedagogika
ISSN
0031-3815
e-ISSN
2336-2189
Volume of the periodical
72
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
511-534
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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