THE COLLOCATION ATLAS: MAPPING WORDS BY THEME AND LOCATION: Exploring Collocations Across Themes and Places (EFL PEDAGOGY)

Schema theory undergirds spatial organization of collocations. Word partnerships intrigue. Collocations aid language learning. Words put together mean more than their parts. “Strong coffee” and “break the ice” improve the naturalness of your English.Juxtaposed words: exploring the locational arrangement of collocations through schema theory examines collocations in linguistic frameworks. Schema theory is related to word arrangement and understanding. Collocations shape cognition. Schema theory says worldview and personal experiences shape mental structures, which affect language perception and comprehension. Schemas aid memory. EFL students can learn collocations and language-cognition linkages by spatially arranging them into cognitive frames. Schemata explain events and objects. Each schema’s main category (slot) incorporates semantic networks. “House” component parts comprise “wall,” “roof,” and “floor” et cetera as part-whole elements. Each schema encourages concept examination. If someone understands an entity is a “door,” they can deduce a lock, a handle, and hinges. Offices need desks, chairs, books, and pads. Cognition affects location and vice versa. When viewed from an alternative standpoint, collocations can be understood as a collection of actions that are of necessity or inevitably carried out, either physically or mentally, within a specific physical or fictitious context. Typically, such a set of actions is limited in nature. When considering the range of actions that can be performed in relation to a door, it is evident that the possibilities are not infinite. For instance, actions such as hanging, closing, shutting, locking, opening, slamming, unlocking, forcing, and breaking down a door represent a comprehensive list of nearly all conceivable combinations.The book talks about the fact that language learners associate collocations with surrounding objects within certain contexts. Case and empirical studies that have examined acquisition, exposure, and usage of EFL learning show beyond doubt that schema collocations assist EFL comprehension and production. Psycholinguistic tests and corpus analysis demonstrate that real-time language users make desperate attempts to activate and recall collocations.This book improves collocations retention. Linguistic ethnography and discourse research demonstrate collocations have rich meaning, connotation, and pragmatic roles amongst language users.This study impacts EFL education. Our findings of naturally occurring collocations affect ESL instruction. Collocations in language instruction and educational resources strengthen language and communication skills. This publication educates EFL teachers and learners on collocations and linguistic cognition. Locational and thematic collocations link learners’ cognitive frames. Each locational or topical unit contains between 50 and 80 naturally related collocations in alphabetical order.