Written by Márcia de Carvalho Saliba
ABSTRACT. The present paper aims at showing the importance of the chunks of words in the process of learning a second language and their central role in developing linguistic proficiency. The article analyzes the psycolinguistic aspects of language acquisition and the linguistic description of the items. It also points out some difficulties concerning the approach of this type of vocabulary and suggests some examples of exercises which deal with the subject.
* Paralleling the idiomatic expression “That’s the way the cookie crumbles”, which means that is how things are (and one must accept them).
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