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IJOEEC, vol.7, no.17, pp.933-964, 2022 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
In this study, the written exams of international students who learn Turkish as a foreign language
has been analyzed in two respects: frequency of word use and use of collocation. The students’
use of collocation and word frequency use has been analyzed at each level separately. The levels
are A1, A2, B1, B2 and C1. Cross-level word frequency and total number of words have been
analyzed in sketch engine program which is used for corpora analysis. The use of collocation has
been analyzed by two different raters and The collocation words used by each student in their
written expression were determined. It has been observed that the students used more academic
and abstract words when their level increases. However, in the frequency analysis the frequently
used words did not show a significant change in terms of meaning. In other words, frequently used
words were similar across the levels. Another finding is that when the levels increased the number
of used words increased and length of the texts increased as in each level exam the instructions
are given for the expected use of number of words.
Keywords: Corpora, frequency, collocation, word, Turkish as a foreign language