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25 - Education
University of Oxford
Effect of frequency and idiomaticity on second language reading comprehension
This project was the first study that empirically demonstrated that adult second language learners have difficulty with texts that include multiword phrases. Furthermore, L2 learners under-estimate the difficulty they face, suggesting they fail to even recognise a multiword phrase when it appears in text. It highlights the need to investigate phraseological vocabulary knowledge in greater detail from a range of perspectives. This study has led to the development of cross-disciplinary funded research projects (e.g., Nation, Murphy & Pullman, FELL (University)fund award 2013/14) examining the nature of collocational knowledge in children.