This Element explores relationships between collocations, writing quality, and learner and contextual variables in a first-year composition (FYC) programme. Comprising three studies, the Element is anchored in understanding phraseological complexity and its sub-constructs of sophistication and diversity. First, the authors look at sophistication through association measures. They tap into how these measures may tell us different types of information about collocation via a cluster analysis. Selected measures from this clustering are used in a cumulative links model to establish relationships between these measures, measures of diversity and measures of task, the language background of the writer and individual writer variation, and writing quality scores. A third qualitative study of the statistically significant predictors helps understand how writers use collocations and why they might be favoured or downgraded by raters. This Element concludes by considering the implications of this modelling for assessment.
By:
Lee McCallum (Coventry University), Philip Durrant (University of Exeter) Imprint: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 228mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 6mm
Weight: 160g ISBN:9781009074445 ISBN 10: 100907444X Series:Elements in Corpus Linguistics Pages: 75 Publication Date:08 September 2022 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
