Collocation Analysis in Twelve Grade English Textbook

Learning foreign language needs several ways. One of the ways is collocation. Collocation
is considerably prominent in learning foreign language due to the influence in language
comprehension. The high proficiency in collocation reflects high proficiency in foreign
language comprehension. It is therefore this study aims to scrutinize the collocation which
used in twelve grade English Textbook. this study applied corpus software, namely antconc.
the first step for collecting the data, was changing the data from pdf to txt and process it in
antcont for finding the top twenty wordlist. Then, find the top twenty sentences based on the
lexical which find from wordlist. Based on the antcont process, the finding illustrates that
only two types of collocation which occurred in twelve grade English textbook. In addition,
the type of collocation which appear are noun 1 + noun 2 and verb + noun. Considering the
noun, the collocation phrases used lexical that reflected the concrete reference. Moreover,
the verb illustrated the effective action. It means that the use of word is for introducing the
vocabulary that related to the concrete referent for noun and concrete action for verb. The
result also display that twelve grade English textbook limited provided collocation.
Although, it is very crucial as learning material plays significant role in teaching learning
process. As a result, this study is estimated to gain insight about in teaching English as
foreign language, especially in the use textbook as a learning material.