Korean Language Collocations

The table of contents is what I need.

Selecting for and against certain collocations and adding more

Using a book to learn English expressions to learn Korean expressions

I was thinking about my LCE101 students on the train ride from Seoul to Daegu. I was reviewing the notes I made the day before on the flight to Korea from Hong Kong when I realized they would be useful if shared with my former students. This is because this method can also be used to learn English vocabulary. Indeed, the book I used is supposed to be used by Korean language speakers to learn English!

I bought this book to reverse engineer it so I could learn Korean language collocations by examining the English language collocations featured in the book. First, I selected a few I thought would be useful in my conversations. Next, I also asked some friends for their opinions on which collocations would be useful, and, more importantly, which would not -- my friends were living concordancers! Indeed, I also asked my friends for useful expressions whilst talking to them. That's the best way to get the most useful collocations into my head: recognize the immediate need and then find the right collocations to meet that need. Finally, I analyzed the collocations in my book and started recognizing important grammar patterns and frequent vocabulary that, in general, are useful to have in my memory. 

All in all, these kinds of expression books can be leveraged well to learn collocations in a lexico-grammar approach. This is useful for all sorts of language learners, I believe.