Influence of the Input Type on the Efficiency of Collocations’ Retention (Corpus vs Dictionary)
https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2022-20-3-123-138
Abstract
The present research investigates collocation learning strategies in the process of foreign language teaching. The paper aims at analyzing whether the process of effective collocation retention is determined by learners’ cognitive effort made at the moment of receiving information about a collocation in various input conditions: decontextualized (in dictionaries), enriched or enhanced (in corpora). Enrichment is viewed as an increase in frequency of the target feature while enhancement consists in a more conspicuous representation of the feature by typographical means.
It is assumed that processing enriched and enhanced corpus data requires higher cognitive effort and, consequently, provides stronger incidental retention compared to analyzing decontextualized dictionary data. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a longitudinal laboratory experiment with repeated measures.
The research focuses on the German language. The experiment included the following stages: (0) a pre-test in order to determine the students’ collocation competence; (1) an immediate test targeted at finding out which information about collocations is perceived easier; (2) a post-test to determine the type of input providing stronger long-term involuntary collocation retention; (3) comparison of the immediate test and post-test results. In analyzing experimental data statistical methods have been used: the Kruskal—Wallis and the Mann—Whitney tests for nonparametric data, as well as the Cohen’s d effect size test.
The research demonstrates that mental processing of enriched and enhanced corpus data, requiring a higher cognitive effort, provides better incidental collocation retention than processing of decontextualized dictionary data and has a long-term effect.
Keywords
collocation,
educational lexicography,
corpus linguistics,
corpus-based teaching,
data-driven learning,
german language
Supporting agencies: The author would like to express her gratitude to the students participating in the experiment, Irina Gorbacheva for valuable advice concerning statistical analysis, the editors and anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on the earlier versions of this paper.
About the Author
O. Yu. Savina
University of Tyumen
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Olga Yu. Savina, Cand. of Sci. (Linguistics), Associate Professor of the Department of German Philology
Tyumen
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Savina O.Yu. Influence of the Input Type on the Efficiency of Collocations’ Retention (Corpus vs Dictionary). NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication. 2022;20(3):123-138. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2022-20-3-123-138
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