Role Of Attention And Noticing In Learning Collocations Through Newspaper Articles

As language teachers it is our common experience that many of our students grope for words and lack in apropriacy of expression whenever a descriptive assignment is given. In that situation, they have to pay conscious attention to descriptive words and their usage. Similarly noticing is focusing one’s mind consciously on particular information and pay attention to the particular context in which the new word occurs along with its right combination. The purpose of the present paper is to help learners improve their knowledge of Collocations using newspaper articles. It was evident that the learners learnt right combination of words and expressions to be used in their oral and written communication to become more effective meaning makers.