Contents 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………..…….……1 Theoretical Basis for Collocations………………………………………………………...1 3. The Types and Importance of English Collocations…………………………………………..1 The Compositions of Vocabulary Collocations…………………………………………1 Types of Vocabulary Collocations……………………………………………………….2 4. The Main Problems that the Chinese Students Face in Vocabulary Collocations……………...2 Collocations of Chinese-English Style…………………………………………………..2 Semantic Repetition………………………………………………………...…………....3 Regardlessness of Commendatory or Derogatory Meanings……………………………3 Parts of Speech Confusion……………………………………………………………….3 Over-generalization……………………………………………………………………...4 5. Vocabulary Teaching Methods……………………………………….…………………………4 Problems that Should be Noticed in Vocabulary Teaching……………………………...…4 Emphasizingdifferent kinds of collocational relationships……………………………4 Applying methods of comparisons to vocabulary teaching……………………………4 Incoporating language context with vocabulary teaching……………………………..5 Applying language database to vocabulary teaching…………………………………..6 Applying knowledge of semantics to vocabulary teaching…………………………....6 Catogorize the vocabulary collocations………………………………………………..7 Enhancing the Students’ Awareness of the Learning of Collocations……………………...7 Requiring the students to find out the collocati