INVESTIGATING COLLOCATIONAL ERRORS IN THE WRITTEN ENGLISH OF STUDENTS IN SELECTED SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL IN AKINYELE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OYO STATE

ABSTRACT This research work was a questionnaire descriptive study investigated on student's errors in using English Language. The research work adopted the random sampling technique to gather her data from 100 student. The data were collected and analysed using pie chart and simple percentage scores. The researcher randomly chose the students from different schools. The study covered some secondary schools in Akinyele Local Government Ibadan, Oyo State. One of the findings of this research shows that students make most of these errors unintentional because, they are second language learner. From the findings we recommended that students should engage in activities like these to help them develop their advanced grammatical context and, as a result, enhance their speaking. The teacher may utilize a strategy the involves explaining when to use the verbs past and present tenses, providing examples of usage and testing the student's comprehension to ensure that they have a firm grasp of the material. Teachers of English language are encouraged to search relevance and appropriate materials that can appeal to the sense of learners in order to increase the student's interests in studying English particularly the grammar.