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TEACHING COLLOCATION
SKILLS: HOW & WHICH
HOW? Teaching individual collocations
( activities & exercises). Making students aware of
collocations. Noticing. Extending what students already
know( de-lexicalised words). Storing collocations: organised
lexical notebook
WHICH? Unique collocations( foot the bill, shrug your
shoulders) Strong collocations ( ulterior motives, rancid
butter, trenchant criticism, to be moved to tears) Weak collocations ( white wine, red hair, a black
mood, a blue movie) Medium-strength collocations ( to hold a
conversation, to make a mistake, to be recovering from a major operation)
Pedagogical implications
Review the language content of the course (consider frequency, type and level of the course)
Increase language input (quantity, type, quality) Review teaching strategies at different levels Translation shouldn`t be discarded What our language model should be?
LANGUAGE...
is proven to be a mixture of the totally novel, the absolutely fixed,the relatively fixed, and all held together with fairly simple structures which we call grammar.
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LESS GRAMMAR, MORE LEXIS!