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The paper presents an investigation of the extent and nature of cross-linguistic influence on both L2 and L1 phraseological competence of advanced Polish learners of English. We review relevant research studies, which describe various types of collocational deviation from native speaker norms in the language production of advanced learners, and indicate that the collocational choices of learners may be affected by their L1, which results either in incorrect collocations, or in patterns of underuse or overuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the topics published within the issue, including one on the examination of the processing of English regular and irregular noun compound by Turkish learners and another on the investigation of the collocational competence by advanced Polish learners.