Descriptor
Source
Author
| Sonomura, Marion S. | 1 |
Publication Type
| Reports - General | 1 |
| Speeches/Meeting Papers | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Download full textSonomura, Marion S. – 1997
Both teachers and learners assume that to know a language, an individual need only learn its vocabulary and grammar. The correct use of common collocations, formulas, and idioms is the skill that makes language fluent, natural, and comprehensible. These formulaically constructed phrases that are not assembled by rule but recalled from memory are…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Community Colleges, Creoles, Elementary Secondary Education
