Formulaic sequences (FS) are now recognized as an essential element of language use. However, research on FS has generally been limited to a focus on description, oron the place of FS in L1 acquisition. This volume opens new directions in FS research, concentratingon how FS are acquired and processed by the mind, both in the L1 and L2. The ten original studies in the volume illustrate the L2 acquisition of FS, the relationship between L1 and L2 FS, the relationship between corpus recurrence of FS and their psycholinguistic reality,the processes involved in reading FS, and pedagogical issues in teaching FS.The studies use a wide range of methodologies, many of them innovative,and thus the volume serves as a model for future research in the area. The volume begins with three survey chapters offering a background on the characteristics and measurement of FS.

Preface

Formulaic sequences in action: An introduction

  Norbert Schmitt and Ronald Carter

Measurement of formulaic sequences

  John Read and Paul Nation

Formulaic performance in conventionalised varieties of speech

  Koenraad Kuiper

Knowledge and acquisition of formulaic sequences: A longitudinal study

  Norbert Schmitt, Zoltan D6rnyei, Svenja Adolphs, and Valerie Durow

Individual differences and their effects on formulaic sequence acquisition

  Zoltan Dornyei, Valerie Durow, and Khawla Zahran

Social-cultural integration and the development of formulaic sequences

  Svenja Adolphs and Valerie Durow

Are corpus-derived recurrent clusters psycholinguistically valid？

  Norbert Schmitt, Sarah Grandage, and Svenja Adolphs

The eyes have it: An eye-movement study into the processing

of formulaic sequences

  Geoffrey Underwood, Norbert Schmitt, and Adam Galpin

Exploring the processing of formulaic sequences through

a self-paced reading task

  Norbert Schmitt and Geoffery Underwood

Comparing knowledge of formulaic sequences across L1, L2, L3, and L4

  Carol Spottl and Michael McCarthy

The effect of typographic salience on the look up and comprehension

of unknown formulaic sequences

  Hugh Bishop

'Here's one I prepared earlier': Formulaic language learning on television

  Alison Wray

Facilitating the acquisition of formulaic sequences:

An exploratory study in an EAP context

  Martha Jones and Sandra Haywood

Index