Inappropriate Academic Collocation on Students’ Basic Consideration in Undergraduate Thesis

Composing good basic consideration reflects great quality of writing and establishes effective communication by using academic collocation. Indeed, EFL students use inappropriate academic collocation that leads to unnatural meaning on basic consideration in undergraduate thesis. Once this phenomenon occurs, this research is conducted to describe how types of academic collocation that used inappropriately on students’ basic consideration in undergraduate thesis. This research employed descriptive qualitative method which in data is well selected fromeight basic considerations in undergraduate thesis of English Department students. The research result showed that 28 data were regarded as inappropriate collocation. These data showed that combination of verb + noun, adjective + noun, adverb + verb past participle, adverb + verb, verb + adverb, and adverb + adjective was used inappropriately. Therefore, this research result is expected to broaden lexical knowledge of the usage of academic collocation to students and present students’ academic writing difficulties to lecturers in order to encourage further improvement in English teaching.