Quantifying the development of phraseological competence in L2 English writing: An automated approach

摘要: Based on the large body of research that shows phraseology to be pervasive in language, this study aims assess role played by phraseological competence development L2 writing proficiency and text quality assessment. We propose use CollGram, a technique assigns each pair contiguous words (bigrams) learner two association scores (mutual information t-score) computed basis reference corpus, Corpus Contemporary American English. Applied Michigan State University second language writing, CollGram longitudinal decrease collocations made up high-frequency are less typical native writers. It also mean MI bigrams used writers positively correlated with essays, while there is negative correlation between texts proportion were absent most which shown erroneous. The conclusion discusses marked differences effects revealed pseudolongitudinal analyses, limitations study, some potential implications for teaching assessment writing. # 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.