COLLOCATIONAL ERROR ANALYSIS:INVESTIGATING LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL MISCOLLOCATIONS IN STUDENTS’ WRITTEN PRODUCTION

Abstract

This study was carried out primarily to investigate collocational errors in 100 English written production of Third Year students at Mohammed Lamine Dabaghine University-Setif-2. It seeks to examine the lexical and grammatical collocational errors. An analytical-descriptive exploratory research design adopting a mixed method approach was followed. Also, two questionnaires were distributed to the students and 14 teachers of Written Expression, and a semi-structured interview with Third Year Written Expression teachers was conducted. To detect the errors, a particular reference was made to Taxonomy of Benson’s et al., (1986) modified version and Error Analysis Procedures. The statistical analysis revealed that a total of 396 errors were found in both lexical collocation (259: 65.40%) and grammatical collocation (137: 34.60%).