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The Mnemonic Effect of Noticing Alliteration in Lexical Chunks
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Lindstromberg, Seth; Boers, Frank – Applied Linguistics, 2008
If good proficiency in L2 entails the acquisition not only of many single words but of many lexical chunks as well, it must then be asked how all this additional lexis is to be committed to long-term memory in the limited time available on non-intensive classroom-based language courses. If it is the case that a significant fraction of…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Young Adults, Long Term Memory, Mnemonics