Teaching chunks of language: the issue of memory

Seth Lindstromberg; Frank Boers

Teaching chunks of language: the issue of memory

Seth Lindstromberg, Frank Boers

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Abstract

This article addresses the challenge to memory posed by lexical phrases (a.k.a. chunks) in instructed second language acquisition. Ideas for optimising the so-called Lexical Approach (Lewis 1993, 1997) are outlined with reference to a new resource book for teachers (Lindstromberg and Boers, 2008).

Original language	English
Journal	Humanising Language Teaching
Volume	10
Issue number	6
Publication status	Published - 10 Dec 2008

Keywords

instructed second language acquisition
memory
lexical phrases (chunks)

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