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Analyzing Jimmie Hill's Article 'Collocational Competence'

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I have read Jimmie Hill`s article “Collocational competence” in your magazine, English teaching professional. Issue 11 April 1999. The reading was captivating, and it gave me a good thinking.
In issue number ten, Jimmie Hill claim collocations are the key to fluency. He also told he had more questions than answers now, and I think he might be right. It was fascinating to read the example in the article about how many words` non-native use to express themselves, when natives can say the same in fewer words. In general, non-native English would construct messages from individual words rather from word combinations. Consequently, is collocation worth learning? Is collocation competence the key of fluency?
A collocation is two or more words
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