Historical Perspective of the term collocation by Bruna Pinto Mendes

ABSTRACT

Nowadays, the discussion about collocations has distinct directions: it is more related to its application in learning and teaching fields, but before the studies had the focus on the functionality and importance collocations would have in these two processes, they were developed in order to define what exactly would represent a collocation. In this paper, we will expose a brief historical perspective of the term collocation in three different approaches: lexical, semantic and structural. We will present the point of view of each approach about the definition of the word, its origin, its representations, and improvements along the decades.

The importance of collocations to language learning, by Izabella Leal Gonçalves

In recent years, the development of new teaching methods and corpus linguistics has highlighted the role of lexicon in English language teaching (ELT). Great part of the studies concentrate on collocations. This essay focuses on the importance of collocations to language learning.

Collocations and the Foreign Learner, by Ricardo Maciel dos Anjos

It is said that it is rather impossible to tell some language students from native speakers. There is, however, little truth to that. As this article states, explains and exemplifies, collocational errors are the mark of the foreign learner, both in text and in speech. Just how much do collocations influence one's foreign language?

Collocations: Catching on Its Importance, by Fernanda Barbosa Moraes

That collocations are an enourmous issue for both, students and teachers, we already know. Why then, should anyone learn them? The main purpose of the following article is to present the importance of collocations for acquiring and achieving a certain degree of fluency in English.