THE ROLE OF COLLOCATIONS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNI

Abstract

This article examines the vital function collocations play in the English language learning process, highlighting how they affect learners' accuracy, fluency, and general communicative ability.  It emphasizes that acquiring native-like fluency requires an understanding of collocations, which are organic word combinations that are commonly used together.  The study examines several collocations, such as verb-noun, adjective-noun, and prepositional patterns, and examines how using them correctly leads to the production of more idiomatic and coherent language.  Additionally, the article examines instructional methods and learning tactics like corpus analysis, phrase-based exercises, and context-based learning that can aid students in successfully internalizing collocations.  The results of the study show that adding collocational competency to vocabulary training improves students' speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities in addition to their lexical knowledge.Collocation comprehension and mastery are therefore seen as essential to successful English language learning.