Although research about the use of collocations is growing, there seems
to be no single study, to the best of my knowledge, which addresses how
electronic dictionaries impact users’ collocational thresholds. This
empirical study has been carried o
ut to bridge this gap in the research
literature and assess the collocational competence of Arabic-speaking
learners of English. The main focus is on their ability to judge the
acceptability of verb-noun collocations using electronic dictionaries on
CD-ROMs which are claimed to be much more than an ‘ordinary’
reference work.
