A CORPUS-BASED DESCRIPTION OF PERSIAN LEXICAL COLLOCATIONS FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS

Abstract

Collocation is an important level of lexis and its significance in the pedagogy of a language is an established phenomenon. There is also a considerable shift in foreign language teaching from single lexical items to multiword items. As meaning is present in larger stretch of language, the significance of these multi-word items of a language has been increased many times. Anyhow, handling of collocations for the learners of a foreign language is very challenging. The undertaken research is a systematic attempt in this regard to describe Persian language on the level of lexical collocations. The corpus of Persian language, developed by Illinois Institute of Technology, has been used.  Sketch Engine, a corpus tool, has been employed to extract lexical collocations from the Persian corpus. The retrieved data of lexical collocations of Persian language is supposed to be useful for Persian bilingual lexicologists, lexicographers, grammarians and in the pedagogy of Persian language.