The Students’ Perceptions of the Involvement Load Hypothesis on Collocation Learning
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The purposes of the study were to explore the students’ perceptions of the ILH and to investigate the perception of their collocation learning under the Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH). The ILH proposed by Laufer and Hulstijin (2001) was claimed its effect on vocabulary learning and retention due to its elements of the hypothesis. Six first-year English major students studying in a university in Thailand were involved in the semi-structured interview. Before attending the interview, the students were asked to complete collocation exercises developed based on the ILH. The students needed to study collocations in the learning materials which were the sentence examples and a page of the collocation in the Oxford Collocation dictionary to finish the exercises. The result revealed a positive perception of learning collocation based on the ILH. Besides, the students’ reflections on the ILH and collocation learning from the learning materials were also discussed in the article.
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