Corpus Based Study of Verb Collocations in Senior High School Textbooks by Indonesian Government

Heri Samudra, Egi Dwi Putra, Ikmi Nur Oktavianti

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This study aims to analyze most 20 frequencies of verb collocations in three series textbooks of senior high school. Descriptive quantitative research is one of the  approach that used by the researcher because this study only focus on analyzing the frequencies, and it is one of the approach that suitable to conduct the study. The result of data indicates that the most of 20 frequencies are got by to verb such as verb go and read which have the percentage are 0,37 and 0,25, and the lowest verb are clean and cook  which have percentage 0,04 and 0,0. In terms of types of collocation: verb + noun records the highest frequency of occurrences (340/MI 7.50); followed by verb + adverb (170/MI594) and noun + verb (153/MI6.67). The lexical verbs that are overused are: read, write, think listen, learn, and clean. The reason why six lexical verbs are overused because those of verbs often use the textbooks in English in the instructions. The implication of the study. Teaching – teachers have to teach collocations, provide examples of collocations used by native speakers, and Material developers-refer to native speaker corpora when designing and developing textbooks-include different types lexical collocations in a various text types.


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corpus; collocations; textbooks; linguistics in teaching

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