A Corpus Study on Collocations of High Frequency Verbs in Senior High School English Textbooks in China
As is known, verb is the focus and core of a sentence,also one of the most difficult points in language learning. Further more, collocations of high frequency verbs are the focus of language instruction. Collocation acquisition has become an increasing ly important area for EFL learners to achieve fluency in language comprehension and production. Therefore, the present study in vestigates the high frequency verb collocations found in the New Senior English for China used by senior high school students(from Book 1 to Book 11) The researcher constructs textbook corpus to analyze the collocations of high frequency verbs in read ing parts. The aim of this research is to offer suggestions to students, teachers and textbook editors, thereby contributing to the im provement of the secondary education.