Наука, образование и культура

 
HELPING HIGHER-LEVEL STUDENTS WITH LEARNING 
ADJECTIVES AND THEIR COLLOCATIONS 
Petrenko S.V. 
Petrenko S.V.
HELPING HIGHER-LEVEL STUDENTS WITH LEARNING ADJECTIVES AND THEIR COLLOCATIONS 
Petrenko Sergey Vladimirovich - Candidate of Philological Sciences, 
INSTITUTE OF PHILOLOGY
TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KIEV,
KIEV, UKRAINE
 
Abstract:
the article deals with teaching adjectives and their collocations to higher level 
learners as well as problems they can face. The techniques that can help learners remember 
adjectives taking into account their collocations and chunks have been analysed. The 
students are encouraged to use English-English dictionaries and electronic corpora. 
Keywords:
 chunk, collocation, concordance, corpora, descriptive adjective, dictionary. 
 
Introduction 
Students tend to prioritize certain parts of speech while importance of others may be 
diminished. Teachers should encourage their learners to pay more attention to adjectives as 
they not only describe nouns, but also attribute, modify and specify them. Synonyms of 
descriptive adjectives and their collocations with nouns can extend the vocabulary of 
students and help them freely communicate with TL speakers.
However, a limited number of scientific works deal with the problem of teaching 
adjectives. Authors such as Bloomfield (2005), Lewis (1993, 2008), McCarten (2007) and 
Thornbury (2002, 2004) have introduced and analyzed general teaching vocabulary 
strategies. Collocations, which were the analyzing object of Gairns and Redman (1998), 
Lewis (2000), McCarten (2007), and Willis (2003), can help understand how we can apply 
those teaching strategies to our students’ needs.