As novas tecnoloxías no ensino/aprendizaxe das colocacións en inglés

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a range of practical activities that may be implemented in the ESL classroom to learn English collocations using the affordances and tools of corpus linguistics and the Internet. The first part of the study provides a definition of the key concept of collocation as well as an overview of current tendencies in the teaching of foreign languages and the role of the new technologies. The time is ripe for the introduction of data-driven learning practices in the ESL classroom given the wide variety of free-access dictionaries and corpora available on the web, as well as the tools for their exploitation. In the second, central part of the study, we present a number of practical activities for the teaching of the collocational patterns of English. In line with the current popularity of learner-centered pedagogies in foreign-language teaching, the four activities fully presented and illustrated in this section put a great emphasis on the active role of the students as the true protagonists of their own learning, with the teacher becoming a guide and a facilitator. The four activities are organized in such a way that they show an increasing degree of complexity, therefore, of student maturity and learner independence.