Abstract
The collocation patterns often appear in news broadcasts. To find out what particular combinations of noun + particle + verb occur in news broadcasts, these combinations were extracted from a database of 361 news reports. Furthermore, native speakers of Japanese were asked to predict the verb they thought most likely to appear after each noun + particle 10 combinations were tested. In the case of the most frequent combinations, native speakers made correct predictions in most cases. In the case of collocations which contain a particle 'ga', the native speakers showed a wide variation in answers. The results of this study of collocations in news reports suggest that this kind of vocabulary training using collocations would benefit learners if incorporated into listening instruction.
