The fact that formulaic expressions are consistently preserved in left hemisphere damagehas had little influence on models of language. Evidence from disordered speech, linguisticanalyses, and first and second language learning reveals that formulaic and novel expressionspattern differently. The “formuleme” (canonical form) is recognizable by native speakers ashaving stereotyped...

The current pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study attempts, firstly, to probe the effects of teaching formulaic sequences (FSs) on the second or foreign language (L2)  learners' oral proficiency improvement and secondly, to examine whether teaching FSs through different resources (i.e. animation vs. text-based readings) have any differentially influential effects in augmenting L2  l...

Many grammatical frameworks view words and rules as the basic building blocks of language, with multiword sequences being treated as peripheral exceptions in the form of idioms, etc. (e.g., Pinker, 1999). The new millennium, however, has seen a shift toward construing multiword sequences not as linguistic rarities but as important building blocks for language acquisition and processing. Based o...

Abstract Multiword units of language, known as formulaic sequences, are pervasive and essential in communication ( Wray, 2008 ). Although issues related to formulaicity have been under investigation a number research studies (e.g. Conklin & Schmitt, ; Wood, 2006 ), the present study is different investigating functions sequences oral language production young learners context English foreig...