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Volume 15:1 January 2015
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Comparative Study of Collocation among the Languages

Mehrnoosh Agah
Afshin Soori
Islamic Azad University, Larestan, Iran

Abstract

The present paper presents a comparative analysis Persian and English collocation and its function. The aim of this paper is to study collocation in Persian and English and investigate how collocation is used in Persian and English and what are the differences and similarities between these two languages from this point of view. The paper investigates the different functions of collocation and their use in Persian and English. Collocations are one of the areas that produce problems for learners of English as a foreign language. Iranian learners of English are by no means an exception.

Key words: collocation, comparative analysis, function, differences and similarities

1. Introduction

Collocations seem to be important in learning a language because words are learned and used in context, and without knowing the proper context in which a word can be used, one cannot make a claim that he or she has mastered that word.

It is evident that lexical forms and specially collocations have important role in learning and teaching English as a foreign language, because in foreign language learning the effect of mother tongue interference arises during the learning process. Bahns (1993) pointed out that most EFL teachers mentioned that usually their learners had problem in choosing the correct combination of two (or more) words. Based on this point we can understand teaching collocations and teaching when or how collocations should be used are essential elements in teaching English as a foreign language.

Xiao and McEnery (2006) argued that there is more research about collocations used in English, but there has been less research on collocations used in other languages which could enable us to compare English collocations with collocations found in other languages. For example, we do not find many research articles on collocations in Persian and contrast these collocations with collocations found in English, etc.

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Mehrnoosh Agah
Department of Language and Literature, Larestan Branch
Islamic Azad University, Larestan, Iran

Afshin Soori
Department of Language and Literature, Larestan Branch
Islamic Azad University, Larestan, Iran
afshin_soori@yahoo.com

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