the influence of frequency level on efl learners' oral production of lexical bundles

Abstract

This study investigates the effect of frequency level on reading lexical bundles. A frequency-driven approach has been used to investigate whether foreign language learners (EFL) are able to orally produce, that is read, 15 four-word lexical bundles of different frequency levels, fluently. The bundles were extracted from different sources as 11 were taken from a corpus of four English books taught at second secondary grade while the other 4 bundles were taken from VOICE. All these four-word-bund