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- Title
Formulaic sequences in second language teaching: principle and practice.
- Authors
Wray, Alison
- Abstract
One important component of successful language learning is the mastery of idiomatic forms of expression, including idioms, collocations, and sentence frames (collectively referred to here as formulaic sequences). Three attempts to foreground formulaic sequences in teaching syllabuses are those of Willis (1990), Nattinger and DeCarrico (1992), and Lewis (1993). All three find themselves confronting the question of how the teaching of multi-word strings relates to the learner's accumulation of grammatical and lexical knowledge, and despite their different viewpoints and priorities, all conclude that larger units can, and should, be perceived by the learner and teacher in terms of their component parts.
- Subjects
FOREIGN language education; IDIOMS; ALPHABET; LINGUOSTYLISTICS; SENTENCES (Grammar); LEXICAL grammar
- Publication
Applied Linguistics, 2000, Vol 21, Issue 4, p463
- ISSN
0142-6001
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/applin/21.4.463