García, MarcosGarcía Salido, Marcos2026-02-132026-02-132017García Salido, Marcos and Garcia, Marcos. "Comparing learners’ and native speakers’ use of collocations in written Spanish" International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, vol. 56, no. 4, 2018, pp. 401-426. https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2016-0103https://hdl.handle.net/2183/47423This is the author version of a paper that was accepted for publication in the International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. A definitive version is available at: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/iral.ahead-of-print/iral- 2016-0103/iral-2016-0103.xml?format=INT[Abstract] This article compares the use of collocations in texts written by native speakers and advanced learners of Spanish. The collocations studied were first identified in the sample texts on the grounds of phraseological criteria and subsequently assigned frequency information corresponding to their occurrence in a reference corpus of Spanish. The distribution of collocations with different frequency of co-occurrence and mutual information scores in the texts of the two samples was then compared, as was their proportion in the collocation repertoire of native speakers and learners. The study revealed significant differences both in terms of frequency and mutual information.engMutual informationFrequencyAssociation measuresLearner writingCollocationsjournal articleopen access/10.1515/iral-2016-0103