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Collocational Competence among Malaysian Undergraduate Law Students

This study aims to investigate collocational competence among undergraduate law students at University Sultan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, formerly known as University Darul loran Malaysia (UDM) through accurate and inaccurate production of collocations of prepositions in the learners' production...

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Main Authors: Kamariah, Yunus, Su’ad, Awab
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2011
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K Law (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/3095/1/FH02-FBK-16-06568.pdf
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spelling my-unisza-ir.30952022-09-13T04:37:21Z http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/3095/ Collocational Competence among Malaysian Undergraduate Law Students Kamariah, Yunus Su’ad, Awab K Law (General) This study aims to investigate collocational competence among undergraduate law students at University Sultan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, formerly known as University Darul loran Malaysia (UDM) through accurate and inaccurate production of collocations of prepositions in the learners' production of the colligations in the Problem Question essays focusing on Law of Contract genre, and to explore their use of the functions relational to the content of law. The findings showed that the learners still produced colligation errors despite their competence in observing the communicative and discoursal functions of legal discourse. This study recommends an explicit teaching of collocations of prepositions to increase their awareness to these patterns besides the establishment of English for Academic Legal Purposes (EALP) courses at every institution. 2011-01 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/3095/1/FH02-FBK-16-06568.pdf Kamariah, Yunus and Su’ad, Awab (2011) Collocational Competence among Malaysian Undergraduate Law Students. Malaysian Journal Of ELT Research, 7 (1). pp. 151-202. ISSN 1511-8002
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topic K Law (General)
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Kamariah, Yunus
Su’ad, Awab
Collocational Competence among Malaysian Undergraduate Law Students
description This study aims to investigate collocational competence among undergraduate law students at University Sultan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, formerly known as University Darul loran Malaysia (UDM) through accurate and inaccurate production of collocations of prepositions in the learners' production of the colligations in the Problem Question essays focusing on Law of Contract genre, and to explore their use of the functions relational to the content of law. The findings showed that the learners still produced colligation errors despite their competence in observing the communicative and discoursal functions of legal discourse. This study recommends an explicit teaching of collocations of prepositions to increase their awareness to these patterns besides the establishment of English for Academic Legal Purposes (EALP) courses at every institution.
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author Kamariah, Yunus
Su’ad, Awab
author_facet Kamariah, Yunus
Su’ad, Awab
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title Collocational Competence among Malaysian Undergraduate Law Students
title_short Collocational Competence among Malaysian Undergraduate Law Students
title_full Collocational Competence among Malaysian Undergraduate Law Students
title_fullStr Collocational Competence among Malaysian Undergraduate Law Students
title_full_unstemmed Collocational Competence among Malaysian Undergraduate Law Students
title_sort collocational competence among malaysian undergraduate law students
publishDate 2011
url http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/3095/1/FH02-FBK-16-06568.pdf
http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/3095/
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