Coherent texts all contain clearly apparent text-forming devices.

Contextual coherence is achievied throug a relationship between the discourse and the context in which it occurs.

the word “odd” (l.12) means deviating from what is expected.

lexical competence plays a very important role in the development of the ability to communicate successfully and appropriately.

collocations represent a more advanced type of word knowledge that should be left to higher-level students who are enhancing and consolidating vocabulary learned.

knowing a word also means knowing if its occurrence is restricted by certain collocations.

collocational associations work as memory aids.

collocations can be exactly defined as associated pairs such as adjective-noun or verb-noun.

he word “reappraisal” (l.3) is the same as reassessment.

Learners should be fed an undifferentiated linguistic diet regardless of their communicative ends.