Adult learners' retention of collocations from exposure

Second Language Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 163-188

  Durrant, Philip ^a   Schmitt, Norbert ^b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chunking; Collocation learning; Formulaic language; Second language acquisition; Usage based models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953040074     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658309349431     Document Type: Article

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