Knowledge of academic vocabulary is essential for second or foreign language learners
who are preparing for studying at English-medium universities. This vocabulary comprises …

Despite extensive research on assessing collocational knowledge, valid measures of
academic collocations remain elusive. With the present study, we begin an argument-based …

Although it is widely acknowledged that collocations play an important role in the field of
second language acquisition, a number of previous studies have reported students' lack of …

Since collocation knowledge is integral to second language vocabulary depth, it
necessitates a careful examination of various measurement approaches. To this end, the …

Although corpora and corpus linguistics have been applied for quite long in foreign and
second language settings, there is still limited understanding about how EFL learners use …

The present study examines the relationship between productive knowledge of collocations
and academic literacy among first year students at North-West University. Participants were …

This research explores tertiary level L2 students' mastery of the collocations pertaining to the
Academic Word List (AWL) and the extent to which their knowledge of collocations grows …

This article describes the development and evaluation of the Academic Collocation List
(ACL), which was compiled from the written curricular component of the Pearson …

Multiple test tasks are available for assessing L2 collocation knowledge. However, few
studies have investigated the characteristics of a variety of recognition and recall tasks of …

Word lists play a critical role in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teaching and learning,
and recent developments include lists of academic collocations (eg, vast majority, ultimate …