Abstract
This paper presents an academic research primarily focuses on defining collocation as a minimal unit in vocabulary acquisition building, on its importance for English Learners during English Learning Process and finally on its main role in practical usage of the English language. The main objectives were realized through various materials exploration of general English vocabulary acquisition building in Canadian English (CE), American English (AE), and British English (BE). The research area was original Canadian, American, and British informational sources with special emphasis on different scholars’ ideas as forEnglish spoken language and vocabulary load in written texts. The research highlighted the significance of collocations through their necessary and completely right usage in English Teaching and Learning Processes. The investigation made it possible to specify the definition of ’collocation’ and provide background information about collocations by gathering and analyzing Contemporary Linguistics scientists’ works and expressed their opinions. General scientific methods include deduction and induction, observation and generalization. Major linguistic methods employed in this paper are the structural (adefinitive and distributional analysis) and contrastive (based on three variants of English) ones. The methodology used for this academic research is simple being profound and scientifically approved. The notion of ’collocation’ refers to the frequent co-occurrence and mutual expectation of some words which appear more often than by chance. In this sense, collocation can be called ’a restricted combination’, which exists between a free combination and anidiom and has semantic transparency. The study of collocations was scanned through modern international researchers of CE / AE / BE. On having specified the definition of collocation and then shown the importance of collocations usage, we could finally provide some recommendations for the teaching and learning processes of collocations in order to improve and refresh modern English studies for students of linguistics / philology departments. These recommendations are as follows: teach / learn English via modern CE / AE / BE sources; emphasize on collocations structure and meaning during English Teaching and Learning vocabulary; pay a special attention to difference in similar collocations among various variants of English (for instance, as presented for CE / AE / BE in this paper);give preference to teaching / learning materials in native English; encourage students to read and listen to genuine CE / AE / BE written by native speakers; make use of online dictionaries, free corpora, and the Internet rich materials on a regular basis. Nowadays, there are many excellent dictionaries of CE / AE / BE collocations which are free and easy to be accessible. The prospects for further study may cover building of a digital dictionary of most frequent collocations in Canadian English, American English, and British English.
Highlights
It is vitally important for learners to build a large vocabulary in the English language which they are studying
We address the issue of the interconnection between collocations and quality of English Teaching Process (ETP) and English Learning Process (ELP) for English Learners (ELs), and we recommend brief solutions for identifying collocations in Canadian English (CE), American English (AE), British English (BE) as soon as possible via modern online resources
In Cohesion in English, Halliday and Hasan argue that collocationas a means of cohesion is "the co-occurrence of lexical items that are in some way or other typically associated with one another, because they tend to occur in similar environments." (2001, p. 317).For example, the word doctor implies such words as nurse, medicine, symptom, hospital, etc
Summary
It is vitally important for learners to build a large vocabulary in the English language which they are studying. A study of movies by Webb & Rodgers (2009), for example, found that 95 % coverage was reached at 3,000 word families plus proper nouns and marginal words (such as for example, fillers like totally and phrases like you know: "English is like, totally fun to learn, you know?") These words might not seem useful, but they are a pretty important part of the English language. In another study, Coxhead and Walls (2012) developed a corpus of TED Talks (www.ted.com) and found that 95 % was reached at 5,000 plus proper nouns, and 8,000– 9,000 word families plus proper nouns were needed to reach 98 % Their finding suggests that TED Talks are closer in nature to academic writing. You can find out how many words learners know or can recognize using Nation’s Vocabulary Size Test (Nation&Beglar, 2007) (a copy of the test is on Tom Cobb’s website, the Compleat Lexical Tutor (URL: www.lextutor.ca))
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