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Using English collocations to improve writing skills of first-year English majored students
Xuất bản: tháng 7 31, 2026
Tóm tắt
This study aims to find out whether English collocations could help to improve writing in English as Foreign Language (EFL) for first-year English majored students at all. Writing effectively is a challenge for most of EFL students. One of the problems is that they do not know how to use the words appropriately. In this study, a 3-week trial teaching program is carried out for thirty-eight English majored freshmen at Van Lang University (VLU) and the writing type is descriptive paragraph. In addition, pre- and post-trial questionnaires are conducted to gain information about students’ use of collocations, and to evaluate students’ attitudes towards learning collocations. Data are then collected and qualitatively analyzed. The study’s results confirm the hypothesis that using collocations contributes to improve English writing.
Từ khóa
Englishstudentfirst-year English majored student
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