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This article gives an overview of the topic of collocation in English language teaching and shows how this is a key area of study for advanced level students.

This article gives an extensive list of classroom activities that focus attention on collocation. This is the second of two articles on the topic.

Collocation refers to words that are found together in language.

It is often necessary to recycle new words several times in class before they become part of learners' active vocabulary, and the same is true of collocations.

Reading and listening texts are often used in the ELT classroom to practise receptive skills and / or as the introduction to a topic or language point.

In the first part of this article the writer explored the use of delexicalised verbs and the problems they create for our learners. He now goes on to outline some ways in which we can help our learners with this tricky area and help them to make their English sound more natural.

Very often students know the meaning of a word but don’t know how to use it correctly. This is often because they don’t know what words go with what other words, i.e. collocations.

Cohesion is one of the two qualities that give a written or spoken text unity and purpose, the other being coherence.