A Study of Undergraduate English Major Students’ Ability in Using English Collocations

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to investigate the problems of using English collocations by the undergraduate English major students and 2) to examine the types of errors of using English collocations by the undergraduate English major students. The sample was 46 undergraduate second-year English major students at Udon Thai Rajabhat University enrolling in Mass Media English in semester 2, academic year 2018. The instrument was a test of two sections: the first was in a sentence completion and the second was in a multiple choice. The findings revealed that 1) students’ ability in using English collocations was fair with the percentage, and the standard deviation was at 4.23 and 2) there were seven types of errors and classification of the students’ ability in using English collocations which verb + noun collocation was at the highest level (69.87).