The Environmental Group - social criticism and fishing in modern times

Collocation is "the tendency of certain words in spoken and written texts to appear in the vicinity of certain other words". Using Marcia Pally's guidelines for "data-driven, corpus-based grammar in a sustained text" in identifying the occurrences of fishing skiffs and modern fishing boats, it is clear that all language is based on its use in context, and that it is possible to learn the English language thoroughly through analysis of text in this way. Rather than simply memoriziing isolated vocabulary words, reading and internalizing the details of grammar in this way reinforces concepts of meaning and enriches language comprehension and linguistic awareness.