Formulaic Language in Language Socialization

Burdelski, Matthew; Cook, Haruko Minegishi

doi:10.1017/s0267190512000049

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“…Similarly, Burdelski & Cook (2012) suggest that socialization can lead to the learning of formulaic language: as ideas which are important in the society are constantly stressed (e.g. politeness, honouring elders), the formulaic sequences attached to these ideas become not only frequent, but also highly salient.…”

Section: The Role Of Communicative Engagement With Language In the Acmentioning

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How much collocation knowledge do L2 learners have?

Fernández

Schmitt²

2015

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145

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A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. However, some research suggests that learners often know more collocations than commonly thought. This study tested 108 Spanish learners of English to measure their productive knowledge of 50 collocations, which varied according to corpus frequency, t-score, and MI score. The participants produced a mean score of 56.6% correct, suggesting that our learners knew a substantial number of collocations.Knowledge of the collocations correlated moderately with corpus frequency (.45), but also with everyday engagement with English outside the classroom, in activities like reading, watching movies/TV, and social networking (composite correlation = .56).Everyday engagement also had a stronger relationship with collocation knowledge than years of English study (.45).

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Section: The Role Of Communicative Engagement With Language In the Acmentioning

confidence: 99%

How much collocation knowledge do L2 learners have?

Fernández

Schmitt²

2015

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“…Henceforth, when language learners enter the TL culture, not only will they be exposed to a variety of formulas, but also these expressions will be the very first things they will acquire through participation in different communicative contexts. In their review article, Burdelski and Cook (2012) discuss that formulaic language "is a powerful means and end of socialization" (p. 174). That is, while learning the norms and the values of the speech community, language learners also acquire the skills to engage in everyday interaction with the members of the speech community.…”

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Formulaic language and conceptual socialization: The Route to becoming nativelike in L2

Ortaçtepe

2013

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The present study addressed the question whether formulaic expressions indicate nativelike selection in the target language by examining seven Turkish students' use of formulaic expressions during their first year in the United States. Fourteen external raters who spoke English as their first language rated the Turkish (focal group) and American students' (control group) DCT responses in terms of nativelike language use. The results indicated that the American students not only received higher nativelikeness ratings but also produced more formulaic expressions than the Turkish students. This finding confirms that freely generated utterances based on grammatical units and lexis forecast non-membership to the speech community (Skehan, 1998) while the use of formulaic expressions is an indicator of nativelike selection. The results also revealed that gaining competency over formulaic expressions for second language learners is not a linear process but open to creativity. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd

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“…90). Furthermore, knowledge of collocations develops in contexts of social and cultural integration, that is, when we observe the usage of speakers with whom we identify (Burdelski & Cook, 2012). These observations make collocations a top priority for the field of heritage language research.…”

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How Many Collocations do Heritage Speakers Know?

Zyzik¹

2021

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The current study examines a previously understudied dimension of heritage speakers’ lexical knowledge by focusing on verbal collocations. Two tests were designed in order to assess both receptive (recognition) and productive (recall) knowledge of sixty Spanish collocations. The collocations were divided into three types (congruent, partially congruent, and incongruent) based on a ratings survey that established their degree of correspondence with English. Participants’ language dominance and their use of Spanish in various daily activities were included as individual variables. The results indicate that the participants knew a vast majority of the collocations on the recognition test, but that their ability to recall the collocations was somewhat more limited. Congruency had a significant effect on participants’ performance, but this finding must be interpreted in light of the interaction between congruency and word frequency. Significant correlations were found between performance on both tests and language dominance, as well as a number of variables involving interaction in Spanish (text messaging) and exposure (listening to music, reading for fun). These data are discussed in relation to previous studies on the acquisition of collocations and heritage speakers’ knowledge of individual words.

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Formulaic Language in Language Socialization

Cited by 26 publications

References 85 publications

How much collocation knowledge do L2 learners have?

How much collocation knowledge do L2 learners have?

Formulaic language and conceptual socialization: The Route to becoming nativelike in L2

How Many Collocations do Heritage Speakers Know?

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