Supporting Collocation Learning
a data-driven approach
Shaoqun Wu
The university of Waikato
look, see and watch
injury and wound
broad and wide?
What are you
doing tonight ?
I am going to look
TV.
look TV or
watch TV?
Z
Z
Z
Why do many students make little visible
progress?
They study hard.
They know many words, including
Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism.
They know Simple Present, Present Continuous,
Present Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous
tense …
They know 20 different uses of the word as.
…
Do they know 10 common phrases
associated with the word make?
What is collocation?
strong smoker
heavy smoker
powerful tea
strong tea
big rain
heavy rain
look book
read a book
one sex product
disposable product
horse horse tiger tiger
people mountain people sea
What is collocation?
Choice of one word conditions the choice
of the next, and of the next again
John Sinclair
How to learn collocations ?
Collocation learning is difficult
–too many of them
–they are arbitrary
No noticing, no learning
Deliberate learning
Use language resources
Dear Jane
You are very very very beautiful. I love you
very much.
Joe
It would bring the heath
healthproblem.
problem
Parents have a wide range of options to
cultivate their children with a good art
understanding
http://flax.nzdl.org
Library
Learning collocations
Web phrases
Wikipedia collocations
Text Checking