Description: New York: Taylor and Francis, 2020.| Series: Routledge handbooks in applied
linguistics| Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019031974 …

It is undeniable that English has established itself as a language of international prestige,
given its status of lingua franca in many important fields of contemporary life (Hoffman 2000) …

This Element provides a systematic overview and synthesis of corpus-based research into
collocations focusing on the learning and use of collocations by second language (L2) …

Many researchers with English as an additional language (EAL), as well as EAL teachers
and students, believe that idioms are not used in English academic speech or writing …

There is little guidance on how to teach different meaning senses of collocations as most
pedagogical materials treat collocations as word partners which co-occur together …

In recent research on figurative phrases, factors (eg, familiarity, transparency, meaning, and
decomposability) have played a significant influence on how native and non-native English …

This study examines factors that might determine EFL learners' receptive and productive
knowledge of polysemous phrasal verbs. The factors include (1) raw phrasal verb …

Although it is widely acknowledged that phrasal verbs constitute a major difficulty for
language learners, only a few studies have examined how to best learn phrasal verbs in the …

Multi-word units (MWUs) are defined as two or more words that commonly co-occur. There is
evidence that knowledge of high-frequency MWUs is essential to language fluency, leading …

Norbert Schmitt’s essential bookshelf: Formulaic language Page 1 FIRST PERSON
SINGULAR The essential bookshelf In this series, Language Teaching invites a well-established …