Formulaic language

Butler, Christopher S.

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“…According to Schmitt (2008), FS account for around forty percent of native-speaker speech, so teaching them has gained increasing momentum to reap the benefits for learners of English. Some scholars (Bui, 2021;Lebedev et al, 2020;Puimège & Peters, 2019) have asserted that FS play fundamental roles in written and spoken communication, whereas others (Butler, 2005;Kecskes, 2007;Stranovska et al, 2019) have held the opinion that the positive effects of FS are dubious. To name a few, McGuire and Larson-Hall (2017) have pointed out that FS encourage learners to gain oral proficiency in English once they are embedded in lessons in a balanced format.…”

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The Influence of Formulaic Sequences on Students’ Oral Proficiency via Collocations and Idioms

Yucedal,

Kara

2023

PEC

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Formulaic sequences, particularly idioms and collocations, have received increasing attention in English language learning settings to bridge the gap between daily and academic life. Thus, it is expected to increase students’ motivation in English classes when they see reflections of formulaic sequences in their daily lives. Although the number of publications has risen exponentially to measure the effects of idioms and collocations on students’ proficiency globally, a gap in the literature has been pinpointed about their roles in the Iraq context. In this regard, this study aimed to explore the potential influence of idioms and collocations on students' oral proficiency. Having chosen sixty first-year students by employing a convenience sampling method to represent two experimental and one control groups equally at a private university in Erbil, Iraq, in the spring semester of the 2022-2023 academic year, the students went through the intervention spanning twelve weeks. Experimental group students received the education either with a collocation-enriched or an idiom-enriched format, respectively. However, control group students continued their education according to the prerequisites of the official curriculum. Data were collected via speaking exams and interviews to obtain quantitative and qualitative data in this quasi-experimental design study. Collected data, analyzed by SPSS 26 and NVivo, revealed that collocation and idiom-enriched groups outperformed the control group. Similarly, experimental group students had more positive views on collocation and idiom-enriched education with various compelling reasons, such as being catchy, handy, and effective. The findings of the study may have some implications for stakeholders who plan to implement formulaic sequences in English classes. Keywords: collocation enriched education, formulaic sequence, idiom enriched format, oral proficiency

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The Influence of Formulaic Sequences on Students’ Oral Proficiency via Collocations and Idioms

Yucedal,

Kara

2023

PEC

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“…The interpretation of utterances by the hearer, and hence the communicative situation in which the speech act is realized, should also be taken into account. This is where cultural variation-in linguistic form, in conventionalisation of interactional strategies, and in social meanings attached to these-influences both the notion of indirectness and its interpretation, and thus raises problems for the generalisability and universality of politeness principles (Lakoof & Ide, 2005;Bucholtz & Hall, 2005). focuses on the acquisition of pragmatic ability by second language learners, addressing the cognitive dimensions on which interlanguage competence evolves: Selecting the appropriate form requires an assessment of contextual and social factors.…”

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Perfecting the Theory of Meaning: The Story of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis

El-dali¹

2019

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The common sense view of what language is for is that language is used for communication. However, some of the most prominent linguists in the field reject this view. In other words, the majority of professional linguists used to adopt a view of language which is at odds with the view held by non-linguists. The phenomenon of communication has often been thought of as peripheral in linguistic research. This view is a result of the strong hold the abstract objectivist language conception has had on modern linguistic thought. Communication has been reduced to a subordinate place amongst the possible functions of language. This low status attributed to communication is challenged by different pragmatic approaches to language. On the other hand, the content and use of the term “communication” is even by humanistic standards extremely ambiguous, and it has, therefore, often been difficult to use in practical, empirical work. This study is primarily a deep survey of the major contributions of both “discourse analysis” and “pragmatics” in an attempt to clarify the problem of understanding meaning in language use. In addition, it attempts to show how language is used, as a persuasive tool, in political discourse.The present study demonstrates that it would be a mistake to adopt an approach to pragmatics and discourse analysis which focuses on linguistic factors alone, or social factors alone, to the exclusion of cognitive factors. Also, it would be a mistake to adopt an approach which is exclusively speaker-oriented or exclusively hearer-oriented. The process of making meaning is a joint accomplishment between speaker and hearer; between writer and reader. In addition, the present study shows that both disciplines “pragmatics” and “discourse analysis” are hybrid fields of inquiry; and their common themes are “language”, “language users”, “communication”, and “meaning in interaction”. Both disciplines have borrowed their theoretical and methodological orientations from almost the same social and human disciplines. Accordingly, the terms “pragmatics” and “discourse analysis” can be used interchangeably. Finally, the present study shows that political speech is one of the main persuasive tools used by politicians to present their political persons and to further their political agendas.

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