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Hur Mustafa Yucedal; Saban Kara – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2023
Formulaic sequences, particularly idioms and collocations, have received increasing attention in English language learning settings to bridge the gap between daily and academic life. Thus, it is expected to increase students' motivation in English classes when they see reflections of formulaic sequences in their daily lives. Although the number of…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Oral Language, Figurative Language, English (Second Language)
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Thyab, Rana Abid – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Phrasal verbs are used very regularly in the English language, and native English speakers are found to use phrasal verbs on a daily basis and cannot do without the use of phrasal verbs in everyday communicative situations. However, phrasal verbs in English language teaching as a second/foreign language is almost non-existent. That is, English as…
Descriptors: Verbs, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Al-Khazaali, Husam Mohammed Kareem – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
The aim of the present study is to examine experimentally the influence of using lexical chunks on the achievement of second-year-university students of English in the writing fluency. Lexical chunks, as the composites of form, meaning and function, stored and retrieved as a whole in brain, can release the language processing burden and improve…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Essays