A Study on the Relationship Between Vocabulary Size and (Verb+ Noun) Collocation Knowledge in Business English - Third Year Students Research

Sep 29, 2026

A study investigates how receptive vocabulary size relates to receptive verb-noun collocation knowledge among third-year students across all specializations at Co-operative University, Thanlyin. The research also evaluates productive collocation knowledge used in writing business emails, using a vocabulary size test and multiple-choice plus matching tests. Data from 260 students are analyzed with descriptive statistics to determine mastery levels.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages22

Reading Time55 min

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Contents

Acknowledgement

Abstract

Chapter I. Introduction

Chapter II. Aims and Objectives of the study

Chapter III. Research Methodology

Chapter IV. Literature Review

Chapter V. Analysis of Collocations in the reference book for third year students

Chapter VI. Findings and Discussion

Chapter VII. Conclusion

Chapter VIII. Limitations of the research

References

A Study on the relationship between the Vocabulary size and the (Verb+ Noun) collocation Knowledge in Business English for the Third Year Students of All Specializations at Co-operative University, Thanlyin. Presented By: Daw Saw Hla Win Lecturer Department of English References [http://nikpeachey](http://nikpeachey . blogspot .com)[ . blogspot .com](http://nikpeachey . blogspot .com). [http://rmfranci.snyaun.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/chapter](http://rmfranci.snyaun.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/chapter) 2 literature...... . _ _ Lindsay Clandfield. (2013) . Global English level 1 coursebook, Macmillan, [www.macmillanenglish.com](www.macmillanenglish.com). Ministry of Education (2012) . Cutting edge pre-intermediate level coursebook for Communicative Skills (Eng-1103 + 1106) Ministry of Education (2010) . Prescribed English Text for Grade_ 11. O’Dell Er MC Carthy.(2008) . English Collocations in Use, Advanced, Cambridge University Press: United Kingdom. Sample study on the knowledge of collocations of Russia students of English speciation (1993) downloaded from the internet. Michael McCarthy & Felicity O’Dell. (2005) . English Collocations in Use (Intermediate) . Cambridge University Press. Hanks, Steve (1987) Fine Art Lithograph Limited Edition. Sinclair (1987): Two principles for language production. University of Birmingham. Nattinger and DeCarrico (1992) . Lexical Phrases and Language Teaching. Oxford University Press. Knnedy. G. James (2003), Vision Sciences. Firthy J. Rupert, Linguist, Papers in Linguistics,(1957: 18). University of Leeds. Hakuta (1974) . Patterns and the Emergence of Second Language Acquisition. Benson, M., Benson, E., & Llson, R (1986) . The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Oxford Advanced Learners’ Dictionary. Nik Peachy (2008), Learning Technology Acknowledgements I would like to express my sincere thanks to our Rector Dr. Yi Yi Win, Co-operative University, Thanlyin, for her kind permission to do this research. And my words of thanks goto my supervisor Daw Khin Aye Nwe, Retired Professor and Head of the English Department of East Yangon University, for her kind supervision and valuable suggestions to write this paper. I would also convey my special thanks to U Tin Oo, Professor and Head of the English Department, Co-operative University, Thanlyin, for his valuable encouragement in preparing this paper. It is a great pleasure for me to express my gratitude to all the colleagues in English Department for their help. Abstract This Study was carried out to investigate Third Year student’s collocation abilities. As collocations are a necessary one for language learners, especially for a foreign language. Every language has its own distinct features and language learners can avoid wrong use of those features. If a language learner does not know the collocations of a language well, he or she will not be able to write a perfect business letter or an email. The wrong lexical choice may cause a mismatch, distorted message, the use of non-existent word or phrase and collocation dissonance. In order to discover how well Third Year students’ knowledge of collocations, 100 subjects were requested to participate this study. A matching form test and a multiple choice form test were administered to them. This study indicated that students have a low mastery of collocations and it was discovered that students were not digested enough their early lessons and also they were not familiar with a lot of vocabularies. Particularly they had much less knowledge of collocations. It is expected that this paper helps the learners to get a high mastery of collocations in English. This paper aims to investigate the relationship between the receptive vocabulary size and receptive verb-noun collocation knowledge of the third year students for all specializations at the Co-operative University, Thanlyin. This paper also investigates

FAQs

What is the main purpose of the study?

To investigate the relationship between receptive vocabulary size and receptive verb-noun collocation knowledge, and to examine productive collocation knowledge in writing business emails.

Who participated and how many students were involved?

A total of 260 third-year students from all specializations at Co-operative University, Thanlyin participated by answering questions.

What instruments were used for data collection?

A vocabulary size test designed by Nation (2001) plus multiple-choice and matching-type tests of English collocations were used.

How is the study data analyzed?

Descriptive statistics are employed using two kinds of tests to support the findings and discussion.

Sep 29, 2026

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