72 The second research problem of this study was the collocations of verbs
refuse and reject. The verbs refuse and reject had various collocations. The
collocations of the verb refuse were nouns, pronouns, and to infinitive forms. The collocations of verb reject were nouns and pronouns. The verbs refuse and reject
had three similar collocations. Based on the finding, the first collocation was money
. The second collocation was treatment. The third collocation was him and her
, which represented someone who loved. Thus, the verbs refuse and reject could be used to deny money, a treatment in the medical field, and a lover or
someone who loved.
B. Recommendations
This study proposed recommendations for English Language Education Study Program students and English teachers for the practical use in teaching and
learning. Furthermore, the findings in this study gave recommendations for future researchers.
1. For English Language Education Study Program Students English
Teachers
This study was useful for ELESP students and teachers. This study concerned the synonymous words and their uses in the real life. The contexts of
the use of the words could be similar and different. Specially, this study discussed the collocations of near-synonymy words. By looking at the examples from the
real use, it could be useful for ELESP students of Sanata Dharma University who were English teacher candidates. English teachers might explain their students
73 about the synonymous words which had some degrees. Based on the findings of
this study, ELESP students could emphasize the use of the synonymous words. They might show to their students that the verb refuse had an infinitive, while
reject did not although they were near-synonymous words. Moreover, as the
teachers, they clarified that some synonymous words could not been interchanged to another synonym. To understand more about the use of synonymous words,
they could show the examples of them in some contexts from a corpus. The findings in this study also observed the collocations of the synonymous
words. The term collocation itself was not really familiar among ELESP students. ELESP students could be introduced to collocation to elevate their English
fluency. Learning collocation was effective to remember the lexical patterns because frequent collocations had bigger chances of being used, especially by
native speakers. Moreover, it improved native-like selection for the students. It aimed the students to be able to convey meaning fluently. Therefore, the students
were able to produce correct utterances.
2. For Future Researchers
This study concerned the frequencies and the collocations of the verbs refuse
and reject. This study might be interesting for further researchers. The discussion and the findings of this study gave insights for future researchers.
Researchers could employ more tokens to investigate other issues about the verbs refuse
and reject. The more tokens used might give more findings in studies. Next, researchers could conduct other topics related to corpus linguistics using
COCA and or other corpus software.
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