A comparative study of the use of collocations in Junior Secondary and the Prospect 1English Textbooks Versus the Let's Go 1, 2, and 3Book Series

Being highly proficient in communicating with other interlocutors can be done by resorting to one's knowledge of collocations which may enable language learners to produce flawless language. The present research aimed at comparing two sets of English language textbooks, Iranian junior secondary textbooks and the newly developed English textbook (i.e., the Prospect 1) versus the Let's Go 1, 2, and 3 textbooks to investigate the collocation pairs used in each and the differences between them. Moreover, the collocations used in seven books were organized into six different types according to their classification by Celce-Murcia (2001). As the results revealed, the three Let's Go textbooks were replete with collocation pairs specially the verb- noun pairs. Although verb-noun rated first in the junior secondary textbooks, the adverb-adjective was the least used collocation pairs in both the junior secondary and the Let's Go 1, 2, and 3 textbooks. The present researcher examined the frequencies of the collocation pairs, in the Prospect 1, which were greater than the collocation pairs in the other two textbooks (i.e., the junior secondary 1 and the Let's Go 1). In order to see the difference between the Prospect 1 and the other two textbooks, the Chi-Square was run. The findings of the present study may have crucial implications for teachers, materials developers, and syllabus designers by using the requisite lexical collocation pairs and by considering the culture-based aspects of the materials by complying with the authentic desire of the text.

کلیدواژه ها:

Lexical Collocations ، Collocation pairs ، Collocation frequency