چكيده به لاتين
The current study aimed to explore the most frequent lexical verbs, the first 20 frequent multi-word verbs and verb collocations used in Iranian and native high-school students’ magazine articles, and investigate if there was any statistically significant difference in the use of multi-word verbs and verb collocations between the two groups. To this end, two corpora were created of the magazine articles collected from Iranian and Native teenage students with the size of 48890 and 344000 respectively. Iranian students were instructed with an educational video and task sheet on article writing and provided with a number of topics for writing. The collected corpora were analyzed by Word Clusters and Concordance Tool of AntConc software, and the derived frequencies were imported into Microsoft Excel for descriptive analysis due to practicality. Chi-square test employed on the data yielded no significant difference in the use of multiword verbs between Iranian and native teenage students in writing magazine articles, but revealed a significant difference in the use of verb collocations in the target genre between the two groups. The findings of this study could be used by materials developers, task designers, teachers and researchers to gain an insight into the frequency and type of multiword structures used by Iranian L2 learners, and would probably help leaners minimize the negative transfer from their L1 into English.
