Chapter 1 the study of collocations

3.1.4  The Use of L1 
 
 
The learners' L1, Greek, is used in the textbooks in order to describe the 
context of the tasks to the students, to tell them how to carry out the task, and 
in some instances to give rules of language use.  The use of Greek is much more 
extensive in the first book, which is aimed at beginners. 
 
 
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3.1.5  The Vocabulary 
 
 
The authors report that due to the communicative purposes of the 
textbooks, "the vocabulary which appears in different discourse types has not 
been chosen with any formal criteria in mind, while it has not been strictly 
graded" (Dendrinos 1988:4).   
 
For the purposes of this study, and in order to understand the linguistic 
environment that the subjects of this study have been exposed to, the 
vocabulary of the textbooks was analysed in terms of types of collocations.  The 
list of 37 types of collocation developed by the BBI was used (see Chapter 1).  
The classification was performed manually by the researcher.  Inter-rater 
reliability of 90% was achieved with one other rater on a random 5% sample of 
the total number of pages analysed, and it was considered to be sufficient.  The 
results were entered in a database using the Quattro Pro 3.0 software program. 
 Descriptive statistics were then calculated.