Bridging English L2 and German L3: A plurilingual approach for enhancing collocational knowledge in tourism as a specialised discourse

Despite being pervasive in language use and dense in tourism discourse, collocations are still an obstacle for advanced learners. This pilot study has two aims: (a) investigate whether collo- cations in English L2 tourism texts can support the acquisition of congruent German L3 collo- cations, and (b) inform the design of corpus-based teaching materials that foster plurilingual collocational knowledge. Drawing on DaFnE-inspired approaches, we conceptualise English- German “transfer bridges” and engage with research on processing advantages for congruent over incongruent collocations. Through the analysis of comparable corpora and a teaching in- tervention, we found that learners tend to gain more on incongruent collocations due to more cognitive effort and the design of teaching material impacts the level of contrast and noticing in the learners.