Collocations and word-combinations in English:
Considerations, classifications, and pedagogic implications

Al Ghazali, F

Abstract

Language is a means of communication among people, and language fluency is influenced by how this language is acquired. The speed of articulation is affected not only by one's ability of retention but also by the amount of prefabricated chunks stored in the long-memory and retrieved when needed. Learning collocation, therefore, offers this advantage to know how to combine words in ready-made expressions, whereas the identification of collocational constraints can guarantee the straightforwardness of language used by non-native speakers. This paper, making use of an authentic text, aims to illustrate how constraints on word-combinations should be taught.

Key Words: Collocation, colligation, constraints, fixity and opacity, alliteration, rhetoric, fixed expressions, metaphor, lexico-syntactic cohesion, semantic, syntactic, immutability, idiomaticity

Citation

Considerations, classifications, and pedagogic implications. Presented at TESOL Arabia, United Arab Emirates

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: TESOL Arabia
• Conference Location: United Arab Emirates
• Start Date: Mar 1, 2006
• Deposit Date: May 2, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 5, 2016
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference