Schemata are expressions that are fixed except for slots available for novel words (I'm not a ______ person). Our goals were to quantify speakers' knowledge, examine semantic flexibility in open slots, and compare performance data in two generations of speakers using cloze procedures in formulaic expressions, schemata open slots, fixed portions of schemata, and novel sentences. Fewer unique wor...

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji implementasi ekspresi formulaik dalam kelas Bahasa Inggris sebagai Asing (EFL) di SMA Islam YASPIA. Studi berfokus pada penilaian keefektifan penggunaan pendekatan leksikal, khususnya melalui instruksi Ms. Lavender, seorang guru bahasa sekolah tersebut. Temuan mengungkapkan bahwa penerapan leksikal mengajar relatif tidak rumit bagi guru. Para sisw...

Natural conversations contain expressions that can be deciphered through their contextual use. These are often flexible, allowing them to function beyond literal meaning. Thus, pragmatics is functional in explaining significance speakers' utterances, mainly when expressing affirmation and disapproval. This study investigates the pragmatic functions of agreeing disagreeing formulaic Cebuano lang...

the present study seeks to introduce and investigate an approach to teaching writing in the efl classroom which draws heavily on the use of formulaic expressions. in contrast to its predecessors, this approach includes both the application of process writing techniques and the teaching of grammar and vocabulary into its syllabus. two groups of 30 efl learners participated in this study. one gro...

Formulaic expressions, such as ‘in this paper we propose’, are helpful for authors of scholarly papers because they convey communicative functions; in the above, it is ‘showing aim paper’. Thus, resources formulaic a dictionary, that could be looked up easily would useful. However, forms expressions can often vary to great extent. For example, study propose’ and propose new method to’ all regar...

In motor speech disorders, dysarthric features impacting intelligibility, articulation, fluency and voice emerge more saliently in conversation than in repetition, reading or singing. A role of the basal ganglia in these task discrepancies has been identified. Further, more recent studies of naturalistic speech in basal ganglia dysfunction have revealed that formulaic language is more impaired ...

While left hemisphere damage (LHD) has been clearly shown to cause a range of language impairments, patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD) also exhibit communication deficits, such as difficulties processing prosody, discourse, and social contexts. In the current study, individuals with RHD and LHD were directly compared on their ability to interpret what a character in a cartoon might be ...