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The Use of English Collocations among Croatian L1 Polytechnic Students

The paper explores the notion of collocations and their most common classification. The primary objective of this paper is to investigate business English collocation usage by Croatian L1 students. The study was conducted among 40 Polytechnic students as a part of an ESP course. The study aimed to examine the productive and receptive knowledge of grammatical and lexical collocations and to gain an insight into Croatian EFL students’ collocational competence. A collocation test at both productive and receptive level was taken. Also, the questionnaire consisted personal information and exposure to the English language in a naturalistic setting to question the relationship between participants’ language competence as well as the frequency of exposure to English and the participants’ collocation knowledge. The research results showed a low level of collocational competence among students, especially on the productive level. Furthermore, the results also showed that there is no relationship among participants’ language competence as well as the exposure to English and the participants’ collocational competence.

competence ; collocational competence ; Croatian Polytechnic students ; productive and receptive knowledge ; language transfer

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