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Idiomaticity in the Basic Writing of American English: Formulas and Idioms in the Writing of Multilingual and Creole-Speaking Community College Studen

Idiomaticity in the Basic Writing of American English: Formulas and Idioms in the Writing of Multilingual and Creole-Speaking Community College Studen

Gilbert, Glenn
Sonomura, Marion Okawa

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Series: Studies in Ethnolinguistics, Book 2

English as a Second LanguageGeneral ReferenceSpecial Education

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ISBN10: 0820425532
ISBN13: 9780820425535
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: May 1 1996
Pages: 158
Language: English
Going beyond mere grammaticality, the author examines the basic writing skills of a group of community college students in Hawaii for errors in idiomaticity, or native-like appropriateness of expression. ( The Way of My Life , for example, though grammatical, is unidiomatic compared to My Way of Life ). Criteria are suggested for the classification of phrasematic expressions, and a convenient terminology comprising idioms, collocations, and formulas is developed. Increased attention to idiomaticity is required, not only in language description, but also in the academic writing of second language and creole speakers.

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