COLOCAÇÕES ADVERBIAIS: AQUISIÇÃO NATURAL OU ATRAVÉS DO ENSINO? UMA PESQUISA DE CAMPO BASEADA EM CORPORA

Abstract

The present study aims at showing, through empirical data, the need of concentrating on the teaching of collocations, regardless of the knowledge level of subjects in English. Considering three different groups of students at the University of São Paulo, two corpus-based tasks were applied, focusing specifically on the use of adverbial collocations.