The creation of an online English collocations platform to help develop collocational competence

Adriane Orenha-Ottaiano

Adriane Orenha-Ottaiano São Paulo State University (UNESP)

Parole chiave: collocations; online platform; collocational patterns; collocational competence; corpus

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to discuss the compilation of an Online English Collocations Platform, designed to help Brazilian Portuguese as well as other foreign language speakers to learn English. Moreover, we address the role and importance of collocations in foreign language learning, teaching and training. The Platform activities have been firstly developed based on some difficulties Brazilian Portuguese speakers have in learning collocations in English, according to research data results (Orenha-Ottaiano, 2012a, 2012b, 2013; Brito; Orenha-Ottaiano, 2013). The data was obtained from: 1) a Translation Learner Corpus (parallel) made up of texts translated from Portuguese into English by B.A. in Translation undergraduate students, and 2) a Learner Corpus composed of essays written in English by B.A. in English language undergraduate students. In addition to that, other collocations have been added to the Platform, which may also help the target audience develop their collocational competence in English. To build up the Platform activities, the methodology involves the extraction and analysis of collocations from the referred learner corpora (to focus on Brazilian students’ difficulties and needs) as well as the extraction of frequent collocational patterns from EnTenTen15, from the Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al., 2004), The Platform is expected to help preand in-service teachers work with the referred phraseologisms in the classroom more effectively and learners use them more accurately and productively with a view to have one more resource to develop collocational competence and fluency in English.

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Biografia autore

Adriane Orenha-Ottaiano, São Paulo State University (UNESP)

Adriane Orenha-Ottaiano is a Lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages at the São Paulo State University (UNESP). She also works at the UNESP’s Graduate Program in Linguistic Studies, in the research lines “Translation Studies” and “Corpus- based Translation and Lexicon Pedagogy”. She has a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Translation from Université de Montréal, Canada (FAPESP scholarship – Process 2018/22943-8), a PhD in Linguistics Studies, from UNESP, a Master’s in Linguistics and English Studies from University of Sao Paulo (USP) and a B.A. in Translation (UNESP). She coordinates the research projects “A phraseographical methodology and model for an Online Corpus-Based Multilingual Collocations Dictionary Platform”, funded by FAPESP (Process 2020/ 01783-2) and “The compilation of an Academic Collocations Dictionary”. She is the leader of the CNPq Research Group “PHRASCORP - Corpus-based Phraseology and Collocations”. Her main research interests are Corpus- Based Translation Studies, Teaching English and Portuguese as a foreign language, Corpus Linguistics, Teacher Training and Corpus-based Phraseology and Phraseography, specially on collocations and collocations dictionary making.

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