Thesis Review Article About Semantics.
By
: Swandi Nainggolan
Title
: PROMOTING AWARENESS OF TEACHING
COLLOCATIONS TECHNIQUES
TO BEGINNERS(ADJECTIVENOUNCOLLOCATIONS)
Post By : Dr.Abdulrahman
Mohammed Alfahadi
Mr.
Said Ahmed Zohairy
Dr.
Mowaffaq Mohammed Momani
(English
Language Center, University of Tabuk)
Mr.
Mansour H. Wahby
(English
Language Center, Taibah University)
What
is Collocation?
For the
last few years,
collocation has come
out as an important
category of lexical patterning. In many definitions of collocation, the ―cooccurrence‖
of words introduces the core concept of collocations. Therefore, a typical definition
of collocation is
―words which are
statistically much more
likely to appear
together than random chance
suggests‖ (Lewis M. 2000, 29). The main
focus of this
paper will be lexis, specifically,
adjectiv-noun collocation for beginners.
The main
focus of this paper will be lexis, specifically, adjective-noun collocation for
beginners. It is a fact that forming the mental lexicon of our learners
requires more than teaching them a word (Willis 2003). Recognizing single words
as individual items is not good for language use. For example, it is not very
helpful for students to learn the me
aning of the
noun ―tea ‖ without learning the adjective ― strong‖, as the other option for learners
is to go for ―* heavy tea‖ (Willis D. 2003) (Egyptian beginners make similar
mistakes, although they know the meaning of both ―tea‖ and― strong‖). Having
learners in mind, a teacher should re-examine the content of his lesson and
find useful groups of words (collocations)to be taught to students. (Lewis M.
2009).
Collocation
types :
1-Adjective-noun
heavy smoker
2-Noun-verb prices fall
3-Verb-noun do the dishes
4-Verb-Adjective defend sth vigorously
5-Adverb-verb half understood
Weak collocations:
the example
―red car ‖ is a weak collocation, as
both ―red―car can easily co-occur in different collocations. As many things can
be―red‖. In addition, the
collocation just carries the literal meaning of its words.
Strong Collocations:
Although not
unique, some collocations are strong which make any information of their one
part is incomplete without the other (e.g.
rancid butter).
Unique
collocations:
Thinking
of collocations on a cline from those which are unique/fixed and non-literal
―e.g. red tape‖ to those which arepredictable
―anice day‖.
Weakness : this article is not give us more example and not all of the people understood.
Strength : this paper give more informations about collocations
to reader especially to beginners.
