The acquisition of collocations—fixed or semi-fixed word combinations—plays a pivotal role in achieving fluency and naturalness in a foreign language. This article explores the significance of collocations in teaching German as a foreign language (DaF) to Albanian students aiming to support their ability to use collocations in the most accurate and effective way. Using appropriate collocations help the Albanian learners sound more natural and fluent ultimately enhancing their ability to speak like native speakers. The study also aims to identify the most common difficulties Albanian learners face when dealing with German collocations. Drawing on contrastive linguistic analysis between German and Albanian, as well as second language acquisition (SLA) theories, it investigates the challenges Albanian learners face in mastering German collocations. The research is based on some different analysis of student language samples and class observation. Following the identification of these challenges through contrastive linguistic analysis, this study proposes a variety of pedagogical and methodical strategies to address them. It also presents some effective teaching strategies and techniques for collocation that are designed to be accessible and practical for learners to understand and use. The findings, underscore the importance of explicit collocation instruction, contextual learning, and cross-linguistic awareness in improving vocabulary competence and communicative proficiency in German language.
Elezkurtaj et al. (Tue,) studied this question.