The Effect of Teaching Collocations on Enhancing Iranian EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension

Abstract

Collocations might be described as the words that are located or found together in predictable patterns in speech and writing. This quasi-experimental study was designed to examine the effects of collocation instruction on enhancing Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension. For this purpose, 70 students were chosen from Safir English institute at intermediate level.Their level of English proficiency was determined on the basis of their scores on Nelson proficiency test. Two intact classes were randomly selected as the experimental group and two other classes were selected as the control group for the purpose of current study. Results of paired-sample t-test indicated that the students in the experimental group outperformed the control group in reading comprehension.In fact, teaching collocations could play a significant role in enhancing EFL learners’ reading comprehension.