ABSTRACT

Understanding Formulaic Language: A Second Language Acquisition Perspective brings together leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary account of the acquisition, processing, and use of formulaic language. Contributors present three distinct but complementary perspectives on the study of formulaic language – cognitive/psycholinguistic, socio-cultural/pragmatic, and pedagogical – to highlight new work as well as directions for future work. This book is an essential resource for established researchers and graduate students in second language acquisition and pedagogy, corpus and cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.

chapter |15 pages

Formulaic language

Setting the Scene

part II|55 pages

Socio-Cultural and Pragmatic Perspectives on Formulaic Language

part III|119 pages

Pedagogical Perspectives on Formulaic Language

chapter 10|19 pages

From corpus to CALL

The Use of Technology in Teaching and Learning Formulaic Language

chapter 12|20 pages

Formulaic sequences 1 in learner corpora

Collocations and Lexical Bundles

chapter 13|22 pages

Concluding question

Why don’t Second Language Learners More Proactively Target Formulaic Sequences?