STUDY OF COLLIGATION: A COMPARISON BETWEEN NATIVE LEARNERS AND NON-NATIVE PAKISTANI LEARNERS

Abstract

When two lxical items are co-occur through grammatical association that is called colligation. Colligations can enhance the potential by binding of the words with different structures by lexical items. The purpose of this research study has drawn the comparison in between the native learners and nonnative Pakistani learners of English. The corpus has extracted from the ICNALE written essays. In ICNALE written essays, we have extracted the 400 files from native learners and 400 files from nonnative Pakistani learners. We have drawn the comparison. All these corpus files have tagged with the TagAnt, and identified the problem to use the colligation in the nonnative Pakistani learners. In this comparative research study, we have identified the misplacement of lexical items and errornous of colligation in the Pakistani learners. The reason of this problem is the attitude of syllabus designers and influence of L1 background of Pakistani learners.

Keyword: TagAnt; corpus; ICNALE (International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English); Colligation