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Teaching Multiword Expressions and Phrases: Beyond Single-word Vocabulary book cover

2nd Edition

Teaching Multiword Expressions and Phrases Beyond Single-word Vocabulary

Edited By Oliver James Ballance, Averil Coxhead, Eli Hinkel Copyright 2026
230 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The second edition of this textbook provides a practical and research-based foundation for teaching second language (L2) multiword expressions and phrases (also commonly called collocations). Multiword expressions – 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... Read more

Contents

List of contributors

Preface to the second edition
Oliver James Ballance and Averil Coxhead

A Short Preamble: A Bit of History in the Life of Phrases and Multi-word Units (reprinted from the 1st edition)
Eli Hinkel

 

Part I: Teaching Practicalities

1. Teaching multi-word units: Some practical issues
Penny Ur

2. Working with multi-word units in ESP
Averil Coxhead

3. Teaching strategies and techniques: Collocations and multiword units
Eli Hinkel

4. Reframing idiomaticity: Advancing language pedagogy across the curriculum
John I. Liontas

5. Raising learners’ awareness of the non-arbitrary facets of multiword expressions
Frank Boers

 

Part II: Multiword Expressions and Technology

6. Using technology to teach beyond single-word vocabulary
Oliver James Ballance

7. Teaching and assessing multiword expressions using teacher-built written and spoken corpora
Brent Green

8. Using corpora and AI to teach lexical bundles in academic writing across disciplines
Liu Dilin, Deng Yaochen, and Rong Jun

Index

Biography

Oliver James Ballance is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Averil Coxhead is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

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

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