Collocation Awareness Raising Activities on EFL Learners Collocation Recognition

Collocation Awareness Raising Activities on EFL Learners Collocation Recognition

This study investigates Iranian EFL learnersʹ knowledge of different types of English collocations in order to determine whether collocational competence should be left to naturally develop as learners become progressively proficient in English or could collocation- awareness raising activities enhance collocation recognition and awareness. The need for a certain amount of consciousness put it; consciousness raising approach which involves consciousness raising activities can be a great source of help for language learners. Language is a means of communication among people and language fluency influenced by how this language is acquired. It argues that learning a word in isolation does not necessarily help second language learners become successful communicators. This research asserts that a major source of difficulty in learning a language naturally is the unfamiliarity of subjects with the English collocations due to insufficient exposure. Also supporting Krashen`s theory of exposing the learner to a large amount of language input, using huge number of collocations is taken as an advantage rather than a problem. Teaching collocations, whatever is their numbers, is an effective way in learning. So the researcher used several collocation awareness raising activities explicitly in the classroom. This paper offers some categories of (CAR) activities which are effective in learning collocations. The results show explicit teaching of collocation facilitates the acquisition of them and raising awareness of collocation in EFL\ ESL learners.