Answer type analysis of noun collocations in Croatian as L2
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4312/vestnik.10.133-153Keywords:
noun collocations, Croatian as L2, collocational competence and deviationsAbstract
The development of collocational competence is a highly complex process similar to learning individual lexical units, where different deviations occur. There is a lack of research on collocational competence of non-native speakers of Croatian and there is still no collocational deviation or answer type typology. Therefore, the main goal of this research was to examine the answer types in productive knowledge tasks on noun collocations, considering their frequency, associative strength, and subjects’ Croatian as L2 (CLS) proficiency level. The answer type analysis comprised three blank-filling tasks of the productive level: 1) isolated sentences with collocations in the morphologically unmarked nominative case, 2) isolated sentences with morphologically marked collocations in oblique cases, and 3) collocations in a wider context. Responses were grouped into three categories (lexical, grammatical, and overlapping answers), which were then divided into different types or deviations. The research deals only with noun collocations having nouns as bases and adjectives as their collocators. The sample comprised of 70 students of Language exercises in Croatian as L2 at B2 and B level. Before creating the research instruments (blank-filling tests), it was necessary to verify collocations in the hrWaC and CROLTEC corpus. Finally, the associative strength of collocational elements was assessed by native speakers of Croatian. It can generally be said that there is a high percentage of incorrect answers and collocators out of context (KIK) answer types on both levels of CSL proficiency in productive level tasks. However, the percentage of correct answers by subjects of higher CSL proficiency is higher than by those with lower CSL proficiency in all productive tasks, regardless of frequency and the associative strength of collocations, which shows that higher CSL proficiency level indicates better collocational knowledge.
Downloads
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors are confirming that they are the authors of the submitting article, which will be published (print and online) in journal Journal for Foreign Languages by Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia). Author’s name will be evident in the article in journal. All decisions regarding layout and distribution of the work are in hands of the publisher.
- Authors guarantee that the work is their own original creation and does not infringe any statutory or common-law copyright or any proprietary right of any third party. In case of claims by third parties, authors commit their self to defend the interests of the publisher, and shall cover any potential costs.
- Authors retain copyright and grant the publisher right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.