L2 Student

L2 Student

The importance of collocation has gained wide recognition in foreign language education. It is argued that collocation-based learning can facilitate fluency, naturalness, and effectiveness in L2 use. While collocation is by no means a recent topic in L2 pedagogy, the growing interest in corpus linguistics has brought to the fore the importance of collocation. However, although collocation is at the heart of the corpus approach, corpus use and collocation are often addressed separately in L2 research, and the link between the two is missing. This study aimed to address the link. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of corpus use on students' collocation learning and shed some light on the importance of collocation in L2 teaching. Data were collected in an ESL writing course during an academic quarter by using qualitative methods. The analysis of the data revealed that corpus use helped to enhance the students' awareness of the importance of collocation in L2 writing and promoted their L2 learning. This paper concludes that collocation is an integral part of L2 proficiency, and thus, due attention should be paid to the collocational field in L2 pedagogy.