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Investigating Iraqi EFL Learners Mastery And Use Of The Appropriate Lexical Relations | ||
| journal of the college of basic education | ||
| Article 1, Volume 16, Issue 69, 2011, Pages 275-280 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ass. Lec. Wasan Khalid | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study is concerned with investigating and examining the levels of mastery and production of third year Iraqi EFL students/University of Tikrit, with focus on lexical/semantic difficulty occurring when using appropriate lexical relations as synonyms and collocations. The study presents an analysis of difficulties in using lexical units from a semantic (lexical relation) perspective, which results in the production of erroneous sentences and which affect the collaborative process of communication. The results of the study indicate that Iraqi EFL students make both combinatorial (collocation) and substitutional(synonyms) lexical errors; but the latter being more frequent. The results also show that lexical errors are mostly due to intralingual reasons. And they are not likely to decrease or diminish with the increasing exposure to the target language unless a vital change occurs in the method of teaching of lexical relations. It is verified in the study that lexis is not a random list of words; it is a rule governed area and must be taught in a systematic way. | ||
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