"Watch up!" [microform] : A Study of Verbal Routines in Adult Second Language Performance. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 19 / Robin C. Scarcella.

This report shows that verbal routines are not easily acquired by adult second language learners and it identifies some of the specific problems they have in acquiring routines. Empirical data concerning the role of verbal routines, (that is, fixed expressions which have been acquired as memorized w...

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Online Access:	Request ERIC Document
Main Author:	Scarcella, Robin C.
Corporate Author:	Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Bilingual Education Project
Format:	Microfilm Book
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1979.
Subjects:	Communicative Competence (Languages) Discourse Analysis. English (Second Language) Idioms. Language Fluency. Language Patterns. Language Usage. Pragmatics. Second Language Instruction. Second Language Learning. Sociolinguistics. Speech Communication.