Abstract
As a language, English has now spread all over the world and has been known by quite a few people currently. English is known as crucial and salient to learn. The language quite reveals complexities that make some people sometimes give in to continue studying it. It has such as grammar, linguistic terms, and other rules that play a very significant role while applied to daily life. One of the rules that are quite hard to do is combining words within a sentence called as collocation. This paper aims at investigating whether the students at University of Islam Malang have known about collocation. In this study, the researcher conducted a quick survey. The data was collected with an open-questionnaire containing five different sentences in which the students should translate the Indonesian sentence into English correctly using a correct combination of words. The result of the study revealed that the students from University of Islam Malang still have been committing errors in combining words in a sentence; it is due to their little acquaintance with collocation even having no knowledge of it. Since it has happened to the students, by conducting this small research, the researcher expects that the students may learn much more about collocation either from this paper or other resources with regards to collocation learning in English.
 
 Keywords: English, Collocation, Students of University of Islam Malang
Highlights
One of the propositions with which is most frequently dealt by EFL while practicing English is writing
It is claimed by a linguists that one of the factors that learners of language are successful in learning language is because of the social customs of native speakers in which the social customs involve the way to converse and to write in a language that native speakers practice in their daily life
Michael and Felicity (2008: 04) notes that collocation means a natural combination of words; it refers to the way English words are closely associated with each other
Summary
One of the propositions with which is most frequently dealt by EFL while practicing English is writing. One of the factors which have a profound impact on students’ writing ability is word combination in a sentence called as Collocation. In this case, the writer focuses on the students’ writing ability to collocate words in a sentence since the writer has found that so many students of English both EFL/ESL have yet to be able to do such thing so far. The students, later on, may learn arranging the words and collocating the words well in a sentence based on the rules of English collocation
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