Glasgow+IATEFL+Conference+Reflection+by+Mahmut+Işık

I like Mahmut's reflection for it taught me new strategies about teaching English to advance learners. I have never heard the usage of collocation knowledge. However, it looks beneficial to language acquisition and proficient language production for it teachs specific patterns. In this way, using collocations prevents the problems that stem from traditional grammar-based approaches to material design and language teaching. In the presentation, Kirsten's ideas are supported by her research. There are two methods based on collocations, however, they are not explained in detail. I did not understand how a learner becomes a language researcher in the first technique and what kind of activities are done with collocation dictionaries in the second technique. I looked over the presentation but there was not a detailed explanation, either. In my opinion, teaching collocation is a good idea. However, overemphasize on collocations can result in learning that is below sentence-level. Moreover, if learners just memorize collocationa without comprehending it's logic, learning cannot be beneficial at all.