The use of collocations plays an important role for the proficiency of ESL/EFL learners. Hence, educators and researchers have long tried to identify collocations typical of either academic or general English and the challenges involved in learning them. This paper proposes a comprehensive and type-balanced academic English collocation list (AECL). AECL is based on a large corpus of academic English and was created to cover the types of collocations that will be most useful to ESL/EFL learners. AECL is the result of an innovative research-based procedure that involves a five-step selection method. A comparison of the collocations on AECL with those found in well-known collocation dictionaries of general English and on three existing academic English collocation lists indicates that AECL indeed contains mainly academic rather than general English collocations. In addition, AECL is more comprehensive with regard to the types of collocations that are relevant to learners.

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学术英语搭配清单

搭配的使用对 ESL/EFL 学习者的熟练程度起着重要作用。因此，教育工作者和研究人员长期以来一直试图确定学术英语或普通英语的典型搭配以及学习它们所涉及的挑战。本文提出了一个综合的、类型均衡的学术英语搭配列表（AECL）。AECL 基于大量学术英语语料库，旨在涵盖对 ESL/EFL 学习者最有用的搭配类型。AECL 是一种创新的基于研究的程序的结果，该程序涉及五步选择方法。将 AECL 上的搭配与著名的通用英语搭配词典和三个现有的学术英语搭配列表中的搭配进行比较，表明 AECL 确实主要包含学术英语搭配而不是一般英语搭配。此外，AECL 在与学习者相关的搭配类型方面更为全面。