Università Roma Tre

INGLESE Lexis and collocations. Use of bilingual dictionaries and of collocations dictionaries in productive activities
The course will focus on the role of collocations and on their use; it will also analyse the (macro and micro) structure of the set dictionaries and on their potential and practical use in written production activities
Teaching/learning activities include: lectures; language improvement classes; dictionary evaluation and use.
Students must pass their language tests before doing the exam. They will be awarded 12 ects only on completing all activities and after passing their exam.
STUDENTS MUST SIGN UP ONLINE (GOMP) FOR ALL EXAMS, INCLUDING LANGUAGE TESTS .

For EMLex and Erasmus Mundus students:
One Bilingual dictionary to be chosen
One collocations dictionary among the following: (in alphabetical order)
-THE BBI COMBINATORY DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH, 2009
-LONGMAN COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS, 2013
-MACMILLAN COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY, 2010
-OXFORD COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY, 2009

Other dictionaries can be consulted in the library

-Introductions to Dictionaries used
-Sinclair J. (1991) Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, chapter 8, Collocation, OUP, pp.109-121.
-Moon R. (2005) Dictionaries and Collocations, in Granger S., F. Meunier (eds.) Phraseology, Benjamin, pp. 313-336

Information about further reading material will be made available at the beginning of the course and posted on the Department site