The use of adverb-verb collocations in essay writing by english as foreign language learners at the University of Burundi a case study of third year students in the Department of English Language and Literature (A/Y : 2013-2014)
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A thesis submitted in Partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of the Degree "Licence en Langue et Littérature Anglaises"
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The present study examines EFL learners use of adverb-verb collocation in Essay writing.A small corpus consisting of abstracts and conclusion was analyzed in order to identify and examine adverb-verb combinations correctly or erroncously used.AN essay writing was given to the participant in the study.
Results indicate that the use of adverserb-verb collocations is problematic for Third year students from the department of English language and literature at the university of Burundi.This finding supports previous studies,which mainly focused on verb-noun collocations,and which reached conclusion that EFL students are not sensitive to collocation in their written productions (cf,Nesselhaut 2005);which is extended hare to adverb-verb collocations.
Furthermore,the study reveals that third year students form the Departement of English Language and literature are not familiar with collocations.Some recommendations in ordre to improve the use of adverb-verb collocations among EFL users are proposed
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