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The Role of Collocation and Vocabulary Size in the Writing Performance of Upper-intermediate Students in Iran
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| Vocabulary and collocation may contribute to effective communication. This study attempted to understand whether vocabulary size or collocation knowledge of upper-intermediate Iranian EFL learners better predicts their writing performance. For this purpose, three different tests including vocabulary size test (Nation and Beglar, 2007) collocation knowledge test (Nizonkiza, 2012), and a writing performance task were administered to sixty students. The results, analyzed through linear regression, showed that while both vocabulary size (β = .521, p= .00) and collocation knowledge (β = .268, p= .03) were important factors in EFL learners' writing performance, vocabulary size was a better predictor of the students’ writing performance. |
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| Keywords: Vocabulary size, collocation knowledge, writing, lexical approach |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 1400/01/09 | Accepted: 1400/01/09 | Published: 1400/01/09
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