Major Sources of Collocational Errors Made by EFL Learners

The aim of the present study was to explore the mainsources of collocational errors made by learners ofEnglish as Foreign Language (EFL). To address thisissue, 40 Kurdish seniors studying EFL at KoyaUniversity’s College of Languages located in NorthernIraq participated in this study. The results showedthat the participants’ collocational errors resultedfrom two major sources, namely, low frequency ofcollocations and the influence of L1. Factors such asthe frequency of collocation components and MutualInformation (MI) were found to be ineffective in theproduction of correct collocations because thesefactors did not cause errors in collocations.