Grammar and Formulaicity in Foreign Language Teaching

• Authors: Romuald Gozdawa-Gołębiowsk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

There are three general problem areas in the production of native-like language by the foreign learner: lexically based co-occurrence restrictions, inflectional paradigms and function words with little semantic impact. Remedial action can either be rule-based or dictionary-based. This corresponds to two traditionally recognized modes of sentence processing: analytic (with conscious reference to the grammatical system) or holistic (formulaic, where whole chunks are attended to). I argue for the existence of a third, middle-of-the-road strategy, which I tentatively label the "contentive" mode of sentence processing, with the focus on content-bearing individual lexical items.. Contentive processing is a key factor in the modular concept of formulaicity, proposed in this paper. A formula can be thought of as a bundle of opaque features, a recurrent unit, a social token or a morphosyntactic exemplar. This puts a different perspective on language teaching.

Keywords

EN

grammar; foreign language teaching

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Glottodidactica
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 34
• Pages: 75-86

Dates

published

2018-11-05

Contributors

author

Romuald Gozdawa-Gołębiowsk

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/gl.2008.34.8