Teaching and Learning Collocations in the EFL Context

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the role of teachers in teaching lexical collocations and also to develop the students’ awareness of writing skill. And then, to make them know how to combine words correctly. Then, students should give much more importance to English collocations and should pay attention to them. The central questions that have guided this analysis are: Do teachers teach collocations to their students in the classroom? What exactly makes students misuse collocations? The researcher uses qualitative method. Also, the researcher analyses and interprets the questionnaires distributed to both teachers and students. The questionnaires have given to both teachers and students to get more information about our samples’ use of collocations. Data collected from the questionnaire have confirmed the students’ limited knowledge of collocations. The results have confirmed our hypothesis that a strong correlation exists between EFL writing and teaching collocations. Then, we as researchers try to obtain results from both questionnaires. The materials used in this study are Oxford Collocation Dictionary, tests book, and other books related to the topic. In the end, we end up with findings obtained from the results of the questions, and then we give some recommendations provided to teachers of English about teaching collocations. Finally, the research ends with reference lists.