STRONG BOND BETWEEN ACADEMIC WRITING SKILL AND ENGLISH WELL-STRUCTURED COLLOCATIONS

Section: Articles Published Date: 2022-05-30 Pages: 52-55 Views: 36 Downloads: 56

Authors

  • Umida Rakhmatovna Abdullayeva Teacher, Department of Intercultural Communication and Tourism, Alisher Navo’i Tashkent State University of Uzbek Language and Literature, Uzbekistan
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Abstract

The given article is dedicated to reveal how crucial is learning collocations, while getting new fixed expressions in boosting academic writing skills of ESL learners. A thousand research articles written in English in the field of collocation teaching and the role of them in writing.  Types of collocations were analyzed and categorized. The categorized collocations were improved through collocations dictionaries to make a comprehensive list of collocations. The findings illustrated that ESL learners rely on collocations while writing academic texts. Additionally, learners’ cognitive abilities, mother tongue impact, linguistic features of collocations, educational context, proficiency of language, teachers’ and learners’ perception of collocations, and the use of corpus-based materials might make contributions to learners’ collocational acquisition.

Keywords

Collocations, writing, efficiency