Supporting Collocation Learning Shaoqun Wu The university of Waikato a data-driven approach
look, see and watch injury and wound broad and wide?
What are you doing tonight ? I am going to look TV.
look TV or watch TV?
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Why do many students make little visible progress?
They study hard. They know many words, including Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism. They know 20 different uses of the word as. They know Simple Present, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous tense … …
Do they know 10 common phrases associated with the word make?make
What is collocation?
strong smoker powerful tea big rain look book one sex product heavy smoker strong tea heavy rain read a book disposable product
horse horse tiger tiger people mountain people sea
What is collocation? Choice of one word conditions the choice of the next, and of the next again John Sinclair
How to learn collocations ?
Collocation learning is difficult –too many of them –they are arbitrary
No noticing, no learning
Deliberate learning
Use language resources
Dear Jane You are very very very beautiful. I love you very much. Joe
It would bring the health problem bring the heath problem.
Parents have a wide range of options to cultivate their children with a good art understanding cultivate their children
Library Learning collocations Web phrases Wikipedia collocations Text Checking