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This book draws on recent language acquisition research to present arguments for a promising new direction in language teaching theory. The authors use research which has employed broad corpora of spoken and written discourse to demonstrate how a unit they call the "lexical phrase" can serve as a basis for both second and foreign language teaching.
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