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Gholami, Leila – Language Awareness, 2022
Research on corrective feedback (CF) and language teachers' beliefs and practices on the provision of CF has been mainly limited to learners' non-target-like use of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling (non-formulaic forms). Consequently, learners' non-target-like use of formulaic sequences, that is, collocations, idioms, lexical…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Grammar, Teacher Attitudes, Figurative Language
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Boers, Frank; Lindstromberg, Seth; Eyckmans, June – Language Awareness, 2014
English phraseology abounds with alliterative multiword units (e.g., slippery slope), which suggests that alliterative word strings have a comparative advantage to become stock phrases. One plausible explanation for this advantage is that alliterative word strings are relatively memorable, all else being equal, although there is little directly…
Descriptors: Mnemonics, Phrase Structure, Metalinguistics, Teaching Methods