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The Company Words Keep: Lexical Chunks in Language Teaching

Paul Davis

A guide for language teachers, showing how the insights into language chunks can lead to learners acquiring natural and fluent English. It draws from three factors: the use of corpus data; an increased interest by linguists in word partnerships; and the availability of computational tools that can sort the data.

GenresEnglish languageStudy and teachingSecond language acquisitionLanguage and languagesLexicology

120 pages

English edition · First published 2012 by Delta · ISBN 9781905085200

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