Term
Summer 8-13-2015
Capstone
Thesis
Degree Name
MAESL
Primary Advisor/Dissertation Chair
Elizabeth Will
Secondary Advisor/Reader One
Betsy Parrish
Peer-Reviewer/Reader Two
Larry Kunz
Abstract
Two research questions guided this project: With explicit instruction, to what degree will students be able to acquire and use collocations in a descriptive writing task? And, to what degree will knowledge of collocations affect student confidence in their ability to communicate in French? Watching her students struggle with acquiring and using new vocabulary motivated the author’s interest in trying a novel approach to teaching vocabulary. This capstone discusses the results of explicit collocation instruction to nineteen high school French 2 students. The author uses research to support the teaching of collocations and documents the details of teaching a vocabulary unit using collocational phrases as an innovative way to improve vocabulary instruction and help students communicate more effectively and in a more native-like manner. She concludes that novice learners are able to acquire and use collocations and that learning collocations can increase student confidence in their communicative ability.
Keywords
Foreign Language, Vocabulary Acquisition
Recommended Citation
Kunz, Callie Anne, "Je me suis couché de bonne heure: The Explicit Teaching of Collocations to High School French 2 Students" (2015). School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations. 207.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/hse_all/207