The development of productive knowledge of collocations and overall English proficiency

2023 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K00757
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: Brown Dale 金沢大学, 外国語教育系, 准教授 (50781168)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): D・G Coulson 立命館大学, 言語教育情報研究科, 教授 (50341988)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: collocations / productive knowledge / English proficiency / second language learning

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

In Year 3, good progress was made with the four studies that comprise the project. For each of Study 1 (longitudinal), Study 2 (pre- and post-study abroad), Study 3 (the four skills) and Study 4 (cross-sectional) data analysis and an initial interpretation of the study findings was completed. In addition, a further set of cross-sectional data was collected and processed to enhance Study 4. Initial steps were also taken towards comparing and contrasting the results of the four separate studies so as to synthesize the findings and reach overall conclusions as to the development of second language productive knowledge of collocations. Further research is now planned to explore hypotheses formed as a result of this work.

Research Products

• [Presentation] Three studies of L2 learners’ productive knowledge of English collocations (2023)
  • Author(s): Brown, D. & Coulson, D.
  • Organizer: Swansea University Language Research Centre seminar
  • Invited
• [Presentation] The relationship between productive knowledge of L2 collocations and proficiency in listening, reading, speaking and writing (2023)
  • Author(s): Brown, D. & Coulson, D.
  • Organizer: EUROSLA 2023 Conference
• [Presentation] The longitudinal development of productive L2 collocation knowledge in a group of Japanese high school learners (2023)
  • Author(s): Brown, D. & Coulson, D.
  • Organizer: BAAL 2023 Conference