- Chunks of language are sequences of words that native speakers of a language feel are the natural and best way of expressing something.
- What a chunk is and what examples? Chunks are pieces of language that are learned and used together. They can be a word, phrase or sentence.
- A listener or reader uses their knowledge of chunks to help them predict meaning and therefore be able to process language in real time.
- Leo Selivan explains the concept of language chunks and how these chunks can serve as a blueprint for creating new sentences.
- In this post I look at how I would do this by focusing on ‘chunks’ of language rather than individual words.
- We can say that a chunk of language is a common phrase or clause, that is to say a piece of speech, that we use with a specific purpose, such as to show...
- Like most people, I didn’t take much convincing that students need to learn chunks of language such as idioms and verb + noun collocations...
- It shows how to help students work out the origins and reasoning behind the choice of words that occur apparently at random in so many chunks of language in...
- Chunks of language have been given great attention lately. They are fashionable. And that is for a good reason: learning chunks of language aids memory.
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