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Alqarni  \nDepartment of English and Translation, College of Languages and Translation, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia  \nE-mail: [irqarni@ksu.edu.sa](irqarni@ksu.edu.sa)  \nDoi:10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.2p.237  \nURL: [http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.2p.237](http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.2p.237)  \nReceived: 29/03/2017  \nAccepted: 17/04/2017  \nAbstract  \nThis study investigates the impact that study in Australia has on the lexical knowledge of Saudi Arabian students. It focuses on: 1) the effects that the length of study in Australia has on the acquisition of lexical collocations, as reflected by lexical knowledge tests, and 2) whether there is a significant gender difference in the acquisition of lexical collocation knowledge. The results indicate that there is a positive correlation between the length of stay in Australia and the knowledge of lexical collocation, since the overall mean scores of the entire sample increased with the number of the years spent in Australia. Participants who stayed for one year had the lowest mean score of 7.39, whereas those with the longest length of stay of four years had the highest mean score of 8.76. Participants staying for two or three years had minimal improvements, with mean scores of 7.64 and 7.68 respectively. The results indicate that there was only a slight difference between male and female participants in their knowledge of lexical collocations, with overall mean scores of 7.56 and 8.35 out of 12 respectively.  \nKeywords: Collocation, Lexical knowledge, Study abroad, Saudi Arabia, Australia  \n1. Introduction  \nCollocations are an important, integral aspect of second and foreign language learning and teaching, hence researchers have paid considerable attention to the topic in recent decades. According to Nation (2001), the term collocation means“a group of words that belong together, either because they commonly occur together like take a chance, or because the meaning of the group is not obvious from the meaning of the parts, as with by the way or to take someone in (trick them)”(p.317) . Moreover, Zhang (1993) defined lexical collocation as a sub-type of collocation where one word cooccurs with one or more other components as the only readily-available lexical choices in a combination. The verb commit for example, is the lexical item that recurrently co-occurs with a number of nouns such as suicide, murder, and adultery.  \nUndoubtedly, collocational knowledge plays an important role for non-native speakers in the accuracy and effectiveness of their written and spoken communications, and in the clarity of the message being conveyed. As a result, mastering collocations is at the top of the list of challenges facing second and foreign language learners who have to deal with a great number of collocations throughout the learning process.  \nDespite students receiving explicit instruction in collocations, Gobert (2007) finds that her advanced Arabic-speaking learners of English suffer from a lack of collocational knowledge. She attributes this to the minimal resemblance between the first and second language context, as her study finds that this type of lexical knowledge is acquired rather than learned. Following this assertion, the context of the target language must be assessed as a crucial factor that could potentially have a positive effect on the acquisition of collocations, and consequently reflects on the accuracy of the learners’ communication skills at different levels. Gobert’s explanation raises a critical point. If this type of knowledge is acquired rather than learned, international students learn","cbCaiflhDgstzL9V","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiflhDgstzL9V","pdf",214630,"English","# Abstract\n# 1. Introduction\n# 2. 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