L2 collocation profiles and their relationship with vocabulary proficiency: A learner corpus approach

IF 5 1区文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS Journal of Second Language Writing Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jslw.2023.100975

Masaki Eguchi , Kristopher Kyle

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Abstract

The current study extends extant research on lexical collocation and L2 English proficiency by analyzing how L2 argumentative writings assessed at different proficiency levels differ in their compositions of weakly and strongly associated collocations. Using a Natural Language Processing pipeline, a total of 640 essays from the ICNALE corpus (Ishikawa, 2018) were analyzed for word pairs that are syntactically related (e.g., Verb-Direct object), and the relationships between the relative proportions of collocations with varying strengths of association (SOA) and vocabulary proficiency scores were examined. A series of regression analyses revealed that collocations from various MI score bins showed distinct patterns of use across proficiency levels, indicating, for example, increases in the use of strongly associated collocations and decreases in the use of repelled collocations. The finding also indicated that band-based MI measures demonstrated better predictive validity than mean MI scores in modeling the vocabulary proficiency score.

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二语搭配特征及其与词汇熟练度的关系:学习者语料库方法

本研究扩展了词汇搭配与二语英语水平的现有研究，分析了在不同水平下评估的二语议论文在弱关联搭配和强关联搭配的构成上的差异。使用自然语言处理管道，对来自ICNALE语料库(Ishikawa, 2018)的640篇文章进行了句法相关(例如，动词-直接对象)的分析，并检查了不同关联强度(SOA)搭配的相对比例与词汇熟练度分数之间的关系。一系列的回归分析显示，来自不同MI得分箱的搭配在不同熟练程度上显示出不同的使用模式，例如，表明使用强相关搭配的增加和使用排斥搭配的减少。研究结果还表明，基于频带的MI测量在模拟词汇熟练程度得分方面比平均MI得分具有更好的预测效度。

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Journal of Second Language Writing LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Second Language Writing is devoted to publishing theoretically grounded reports of research and discussions that represent a significant contribution to current understandings of central issues in second and foreign language writing and writing instruction. Some areas of interest are personal characteristics and attitudes of L2 writers, L2 writers'' composing processes, features of L2 writers'' texts, readers'' responses to L2 writing, assessment/evaluation of L2 writing, contexts (cultural, social, political, institutional) for L2 writing, and any other topic clearly relevant to L2 writing theory, research, or instruction.