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Bahns, Jens; Eldaw, Moira – System, 1993
German advanced English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students' productive knowledge of English collocations consisting of a verb and a noun were investigated in a translation task and a close task. Results suggest that EFL students should concentrate on collocations that cannot readily be paraphrased. The tasks are appended. (32 references)…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Idioms