ADVANTAGES OF USING FORMULAIC EXPRESSIONS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
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Keywords: Formulaic sequences, ready-made utterances, collocations, conversation corpus, vocabulary acquisition, spoken discourse, written discourse, language proficiencyAbstract
Abstract: The ability to recognize and use formulaic items appropriately increases the efficiency of independent learning, and developing an awareness of the functionality of lexical bundles proves to be a great asset in laying a solid foundation for language competence. Besides that, the study investigated the relationship between knowledge of formulaic sequences and language proficiency. Formulaic language is pervasive in language use, and the research reported in this article shows that it is easier to process.
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