In this article we review experimental and intervention studies published since 2004 on
formulaic sequences in a second language (L2). There is plenty of evidence that learners …

The pace at which new L2 words or expressions are acquired is influenced by the degree of
engagement with them on the part of the learner. Several researchers with a Cognitive …

of state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on metaphor and language. Featuring 35
chapters, written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume takes a broad view …

Providing a much-needed critical synthesis of research on teaching vocabulary and
grammar to students of a second or foreign language, this book puts the research into …

The aim of this review is to consider how current vocabulary training methods could be
optimized by considering recent scientific insights in how the brain represents conceptual …

This article presents a rationale for making idioms and their use a mainstay of the second
language (L2) curriculum. First, it offers a definition of the elusive term" idiom" as a point of …

Each chapter in this volume focuses on a specific area of lexicography. The chapters share
broadly the same format, covering a history of the area, a critical discussion of its main …

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 …

Building on previous theoretical constructs and empirical findings on idioms, this article
advances an integrated theoretical and methodological framework for developing idiomatic …

Bilingual Figurative Language Processing is a timely book that provides a much-needed
bilingual perspective to the broad field of figurative language. This is the first book of its kind …