한국폴리텍대학 재학생을 위한 영어 연어 학습에 관한 연구

A Study on the Collocations in English Class in Korea Polytechnics Focusing on Textbook and Classroom Activities

A lot of interest is in vocabulary teaching and learning, and most research focuses on individual words. Learners have been encouraged to learn individual words and make sentences by inserting them into extended grammatical structures. Although learners successfully learn grammar and a lot of individual words, they often produce awkward grammatical sentences. This is because of their lack of collocation competence. Learners have relatively few chances to encounter typical word sequences repeatedly. Thus, they are more likely to translate from their unacceptable general vocabulary knowledge. A collocation is a relationship between two words or groups of words that often go together and form a common expression. Some combinations sound natural to native English speakers, but other combinations may be unnatural and sound wrong to native speakers. Learning collocation is a crucial part of learning the vocabulary of a language and of acquiring fluency. This paper aims to suggest a few activities accessible to Korea Polytechnics’ English class to help Korea Polytechnics’ students improve their collocation competence instead of just memorizing as many words as possible.