Collocations in Context
Journal
Humanising Language Teaching
Date Issued
2025-08
Author(s)
Abstract
Collocations, i.e. lexical word combinations that co-occur more frequently than chance, are central to Business English pedagogy. In a university economics context (B2–C1), mastery of field-specific collocations supports authentic professional communication and reflects corpus-informed course materials. Explicit collocation work builds collocational competence by sensitizing learners to acceptable word partnerships, reducing L1-influenced mis-collocations, and strengthening mental lexicons through chunk learning. A reading-and-glossing homework task illustrates how noticing collocations in context can boost receptive knowledge, encourage dictionary use, and promote learner autonomy.
Subjects
File(s)![Thumbnail Image]()
Loading...
Name
August 2025 - Collocations in Context.pdf
Size
2.6 MB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum
(MD5):d168417de2d8a1f8d9dd9e925a3f279f