• Define collocations and speech communities
o How are these related and why is this important?
• Review of related research
• Discuss why teaching collocations increases proficiency:
o enhances vocabulary learning
o produces L2 sociolinguistic competence.
o students gain knowledge of how a language is used by the members of a speech community
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• Discuss the consequences of weak collocation knowledge:
o Prevents or makes difficult inferring from context
o Frequent misunderstanding of native speakers
• Practical suggestions for teaching collocations: classroom activities and games