Traditional accounts of language postulate two basic components: words stored in a lexicon,
and rules that govern how they can be combined into meaningful sentences, a grammar …

Academic lectures are potential sources of vocabulary learning for second language
learners studying at universities where English is the medium of instruction, as well as those …

The present study explores the incidental learning of formulaic sequences (FS) from audio-
visual input and factors affecting the learning of FS. A pretest-posttest, within-participant …

Given that utterance fluency in a second language (L2) is associated with not only L2
cognitive fluency but also utterance fluency in the first language (L1), the study examined to …

This study examines the effect of textual enhancement on learners' attention to and learning
of multiword units from captioned audiovisual input. We adopted a within-participants design …

Background Vocabulary learning in a second language (L2) encompasses crucial aspects,
including single words and collocations. Research indicates that L2 learners can …

This Element provides a systematic overview and synthesis of corpus-based research into
collocations focusing on the learning and use of collocations by second language (L2) …

Emotional intelligence (EI) plays a critical role in English learning, as it fosters a better
understanding of language nuances, enhances learner motivation, and improves …

This chapter gives an overview of factors that have been shown by research to influence the
likelihood and rate of second language learners' acquisition of multiword items (collocations …

We investigated whether the accuracy of grammatical morphemes in second language (L2)
learners' writing is associated with usage‐based distributional factors. Specifically, we …