Mastering Lexical Chunks

Harold Palmer suggested that the most fundamental guiding principle to conversational proficiency is to memorize perfectly the largest number of common and useful word-groups.

The learning of chunks can benefit language learning overall by facilitating fluent processing, conferring idiomaticity, and providing the raw material for subsequent language development.

According to Pawley & Syder, lexicalised sentence stems and other memorized strings form the main building blocks of fluent connected speech.

<p>Harold Palmer posed the question about the most fundamental guiding principle to conversational proficiency.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The three reasons for prioritising the learning of lexical chunks are facilitating fluent processing, conferring idiomaticity, and providing the raw material for subsequent language development.</p> Signup and view all the answers