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Empirical evidence has shown that the linguistic productions of native and non-native learners differ in so many ways which may affect the achievement of communicative competence by non-native learners. Lexical verbs seem to be the most problematic ones as they carry both semantic meanings and also tense markers. Since previous studies have shown that non-native learners do not use these verbs effectively as do native learners, including the use of verb-noun collocations which are eminent in native writing, this study, therefore, examines and contrasts the salient features of commonly used lexical verbs and their verb-noun collocations between a corpus of ESL learners whose first language is Malay (WECMEL) and native learner corpus (LOCNESS). This contrastive analysis hopes to unveil the significant elements of common lexical verbs and their noun collocates used in academic writing and its non-native use by Malays ESL learners. The findings would suggest pedagogical implications in the area of language education. |
