Abstract

SAEDPANAH, Elahe  and  DASTGOSHADEH, Adel. The Comparative Effect of Teaching Collocations through Literary vs. Non-Literary Content on EFL Learners. How [online]. 2019, vol.26, n.1, pp.63-80. ISSN 0120-5927.  https://doi.org/10.19183/how.26.1.473.

This study investigates the comparative effect of teaching collocations through practicing them in literary and non-literary contents. The participants were composed of 30 EFL students selected from a cohort of 52 intermediate students in an English language institute in Sanandaj City, Iran. They were selected based on their scores on the Preliminary English Test (PET) and a collocation test, developed and piloted in advance. The selected participants were randomly divided into two experimental groups. Collocations were taught through literary content in one group; the others were instructed via non-literary content. At the end of the period of treatment with both groups, a collocation test was administered to both groups as a posttest. The analysis of collected data, using One-way ANCOVA and Descriptive Statistics, reveals that teaching the new collocations through literary contents proved significantly more effective than teaching them through non-literary contents.

Keywords : literary content; non-literary content; collocation learning; EFL learners..

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