A master’s thesis at the University of Misan discusses the role of raising awareness of collocation in improving Iraqi EFL learners’ Reading Comprehensions at the university level
A thesis viva was held at the University of Misan / College of Education / the Department of English, with the title (the role of raising awareness of collocation in improving Iraqi EFL learners’ Reading Comprehensions at the university level) submitted by the postgraduate student (Muhammad Ahmad Karam) and under the supervision of Prof. Fatima Rahim Abdul Hussein.
This study deals with collocation as a linguistic phenomenon with a psychological reality, which is established through computer records, which forms an essential part in the mental organization of the lexicon of native speakers of a particular language, and that the lack of knowledge of collocation can cause a problem on the linguistic competence of foreign language learners.
The thesis included the problem of the study, its assumptions, objectives, procedures, limits, and its theoretical framework. Also it deals with the concept of reading comprehension from a linguistic-psychological aspect, the factors that affect it and its levels, as well as the concept of linguistic awareness and its relationship to learning English as a foreign language, in addition to collocation in terms of investigating its history, defining its semantic concept, its classifications and representations in computer records and its relationship to reading comprehension, as well as some literature review.
The statistical results of the study proved that raising awareness of collocation has a positive statistically significant effect in increasing knowledge of collocation and improving reading comprehension of university students.