... aspects of collocation instruction and collocations in ESL writing 2.1 Overview of collocation 2.1.1 Definition of collocations Firth R.J is considered the first scholar to introduce the term collocation ... transparency 2.1.2 Characteristics of collocations Prefabrication According to many researchers, one of the main characteristics of collocations is that collocations are pre-fabricated phrases ... users There is, also, another categorization that there are two basic kinds of collocations: lexical collocations and grammatical collocations (Benson et al, 1986; Bahns, 1993) Lexical collocations...