Teaching Business English Collocations - An Interesting Challenge To Face

We live in a fast-paced world in which good knowledge of English represents a key factor for success. The ever-growing needs for fluency in English have provided collocation the status of a particularly important aspect of the English lexical system. Being assumed that, in real life, more than 80% of what we say, write, and read is made up of collocations, our job, as teachers of English, becomes very clear: we need to teach our students Business English collocations. My experience has clearly revealed that teaching Business English collocations can be both a challenge but also a difficult subject to approach. Why? Because students learning Business English vocabulary often encounter difficulties in acquiring collocations efficiently, although they are aware of the fact that these combined words can guide them towards the useful everyday spoken Business English that native speakers use so effortlessly. The key to fluent English that sounds naturally can be a good knowledge of these typical combinations of words, known as collocations.