'You see, it's sort of tricky for the L2-user': the puzzle of idiomaticity in English as a lingua franca

Much has been claimed recently for the role of idiomaticity in L1 acquisition and fluency and many of these insights have been applied, in my view, uncritically in many cases, to the context of L2 use. Until recently, very little attempt was made to test out the applicability of these insights to En...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prodromou, Luke
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2005
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11180/