{"id":6100,"date":"2018-01-09T05:42:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T05:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltweekly.com\/?p=6100"},"modified":"2018-01-09T05:42:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T05:42:42","slug":"why-good-language-teachers-should-take-collocations-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=6100","title":{"rendered":"Why good language teachers should take collocations seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael McCarthy has published an article on using collocations on the Cambridge University ELT blog.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy says, &#8220;Collocations are pairs of words that occur regularly together, with a high degree of probability. They don\u2019t have to be used next to one another; they just have to occur in the same environment. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<p>She has\u00a0<strong>blond<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>hair<\/strong>. His\u00a0<strong>hair<\/strong>\u00a0is dyed\u00a0<strong>blond<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>She drives a\u00a0<strong>beige car<\/strong>. His\u00a0<strong>car<\/strong>\u00a0is a sort of light\u00a0<strong>beige<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The internet has played a\u00a0<strong>crucial role<\/strong>\u00a0in globalisation. The\u00a0<strong>role<\/strong>\u00a0played by the internet in globalisation has been\u00a0<strong>crucial<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We say that blond collocates with hair and words connected with hair (tresses, curls). Beige can collocate with lots of nouns (car, jacket, wallpaper, floor-covering, etc.) where blond does not (we don\u2019t say a blond car or a blond jacket). On the other hand, we don\u2019t say beige hair. We say that decisions, roles, factors can be crucial, but we do not normally say a crucial man\/woman. Collocations reveal restrictions on which words can go together and which words do not&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/elt\/blog\/2018\/01\/04\/why-good-language-teachers-should-take-collocations-seriously\/\"><strong><span class=\"title-copy\">Why good language teachers should take collocations seriously<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/elt\/blog\/\"><strong>Cambridge University ELT Blog<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael McCarthy has published an article on using collocations on the Cambridge University ELT blog. McCarthy says, &#8220;Collocations are pairs of words that occur regularly together, with a high degree of probability. They don\u2019t have to be used next to one another; they just have to occur in the same environment. 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