The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations

Szudarski, Pawe?; Carter, Ronald

Abstract

The study investigated L2 learners’ acquisition of verb-noun and adjective-noun collocations following two kinds of instruction: input flood only and input flood plus input enhancement (in the form of underlining). L1 Polish learners of English as a foreign language were exposed to infrequent collocations embedded in stories that were read during three consecutive weeks. Their collocational competence was subsequently assessed in a battery of delayed tests tapping into productive and receptive levels of collocational mastery. Input flood plus input enhancement resulted in the acquisition of collocations but only at the level of form recall and form recognition. The findings are discussed with reference to the complexity of acquiring and measuring L2 collocational knowledge. The article concludes with implications for instructed second language acquisition.

Citation

Szudarski, P., & Carter, R. (2016). The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 26(2), 245-265. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12092

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 8, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Dec 12, 2014
• Publication Date: Jul 7, 2016
• Deposit Date: Oct 9, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 9, 2017
• Journal: International Journal of Applied Linguistics
• Print ISSN: 0802-6106
• Electronic ISSN: 1473-4192
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 245-265
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12092
• Keywords: SLA, foreign language teaching methodology, corpus linguistics
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/801824
• Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijal.12092/abstract
• Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Szudarski, P., and Carter, R. (2016) The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners' acquisition of collocations. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 26: 245–265. doi: 10.1111/ijal.12092., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12092. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.