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Insight into collocational competence among Polish students of Croatian as L2

Apart from the detailed description of noun collocations in Croatian as L1 (CL1) given by Blagus Bartolec (2014), research on collocational competence in Croatian as L1 or L2 is sporadic. Ordulj and Cvikić (forthcoming) discussed the factors that influence collocational competence in CL1, showing that native speakers have the best knowledge of collocations with high frequency and associative strength. So far, the most extensive research on collocational acquisition in Croatian as Second Language (CSL) in heterogeneous groups was given by Ordulj (2016). This research shows that subjects of higher language proficiency have better receptive knowledge of more frequent noun collocations than subjects of lower CSL proficiency. The analysis of tasks on the productive level showed that subjects of lower proficiency have very poor collocational competence, while subjects of higher CSL proficiency show an equal knowledge of noun collocations in the nominative case and in oblique cases. The main goal of this paper was to examine the receptive and productive knowledge of noun collocations based on their frequency, collocational strength, morphological features and CSL proficiency level among Polish students of CSL. Collocations used in the research were collected from essays written by students of CSL on B1 and B2 proficiency levels. The hrWaC corpus was used to count the frequency of collocations, whereas the associative strength of collocational elements was assessed by native speakers of Croatian. The respondent sample comprised of 27 students of Croatian at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. In order to examine the receptive knowledge of collocations in CSL, respondents completed a multiple choice task. The influence of morphological features on collocational knowledge was tested on two blank-filling tasks with collocations in nominative and oblique cases. The results showed that respondents of higher and lower language proficiency have equal receptive knowledge of more frequent noun collocations. The analysis of tasks on the productive level showed that morphological features did not influence collocational knowledge for respondents of lower and higher CSL proficiency since on both CSL proficiency levels, respondents had the best knowledge of collocations of high frequency.

collocational competence, Croatian as L2

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