Lexical chunks and retention-production of Iranian EFL learners
Lexical chunks and retention-production of Iranian EFL learners

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on the role of collocations in language teaching. Due to vagueness in definition and categorization, we divide the collocations into two types: referential collocations meaning recognizable by just referring to single word companies; and inferential collocations whose meaning cannot be easily discerned by non-native speakers of English. This study compared these two types of collocations among two groups of Iranian EFL learners and found that learners had more difficulty in producing the collocations than retaining. However, learners had difficulty in producing both the referential and collocational expressions with similar degree. The finding further suggests that the categorization for the non-native speakers—Persian learners—make less sense as for them all the lexical chunking is problematic whether idiomatic or referential and they need awareness-raising.

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