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?
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?
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 JaneYou 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
http://flax.nzdl.orgLibrary
Learning collocations
Web phrases
Wikipedia collocations
Text Checking