Over the years, substantial shifts in theory, belief, and practice have occurred in the teaching
of language, specifically vocabulary, grammar, or their combination in lexicogrammatical …

Page 1 OXFORD APPLIED LINGUISTICS The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition
Zoltán Dörnyei OXFORD ih The Ben Warren International House Trust Prize Winner 2009 Page …

Students who are beginning university studies face a bewildering range of obstacles and
adjustments, and many of these difficulties involve learning to use language in new ways …

This paper investigates the use of multi-word sequences in two important university
registers: classroom teaching and textbooks. Following Biber et al.(1999), we take a …

For more than a century, linguists have been interested in the study of frequent word
combinations. The present study investigated a special type of word combination, lexical …

Lexical bundles–recurrent sequences of words–are important building blocks of discourse in
spoken and written registers. Previous research has shown that lexical bundles are …

Although phraseology has recently begun to establish itself as a field in its own right, this
process is being hindered by two main factors: the highly variable and wide-ranging scope …

This article examines the extent to which lexical bundles (LBs; ie, frequently recurring strings
of words that often span traditional syntactic boundaries) are stored and processed …

Even before the use of computer-assisted techniques in lexicography and linguistics,
scholars interested in language use recognized the importance of recurring patterns. Firth …

Researchers and instructors have been interested in the investigation and teaching of
formulaic sequences for the past four decades. In academic writing, for example, these …