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Teaching Essential Units of Language: Beyond Single-word Vocabulary book cover

1st Edition

Teaching Essential Units of Language Beyond Single-word Vocabulary

Edited By Eli Hinkel Copyright 2019
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge
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This textbook provides a practical and research-based foundation for teaching second language (L2) multiword units (also commonly called collocations). Multiword units – such as strong tea , beautiful weather , or would you mind –cannot be readily understood or predicted by the meanings of their component parts, and prove particularly challenging for English language learners. With... Read more

A Short Preamble: A Bit of History in the Life of Phrases and Multi-word Units

Eli Hinkel

Part I. Key Considerations

1. Teaching Multi-word Units: A Teacher’s Perspective

Penny Ur

2. Working with Multi-word Units in ESP/EAP

Averil Coxhead

3. Teaching Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions: Across the Second Language Curriculum

John I. Liontas

Part II . Teaching Practicalities

4. Teaching Strategies and Techniques: Collocations and Multiword Units

Eli Hinkel

5. Teaching and Assessing Multiword Expressions Using an Open Educational Resources Academic English Corpus

Brent A. Green

6. Functions of Formulaic Expressions at School: From the Coffee Shop to the Classroom

Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman

7. Teaching Lexical Bundles: Which Ones and How?

Randi Reppen

Biography

Eli Hinkel is Professor of Linguistics and MA-TESL Programs, Seattle Pacific University, USA.

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