Peeping into myths and legends for chunks: an exploratory study

Fictional narrative texts such as short stories, novels, fables, legends and myths share certain grammatical, lexical and stylistic features that make them unique. For this reason, it is of prime importance that students of English as a foreign language deal with this specificity in the classroom es...

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Autores principales:	Fernández, Gabriela, Valcarce, María del Mar, Valls, Carla
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Publicado:	Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Facultad de Lenguas 2019
Acceso en línea:	https://bibliotecadelenguas.uncoma.edu.ar/items/show/440 https://bibliotecadelenguas.uncoma.edu.ar/files/original/3ac84a7ffa89d62498466e0ba8f50f6d.pdf
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spelling	I22-R137-4402025-12-09T14:41:58Z Peeping into myths and legends for chunks: an exploratory study Fernández, Gabriela Valcarce, María del Mar Valls, Carla Fictional narrative texts such as short stories, novels, fables, legends and myths share certain grammatical, lexical and stylistic features that make them unique. For this reason, it is of prime importance that students of English as a foreign language deal with this specificity in the classroom especially by exploring how ideas are developed and how meaning is conveyed through the use of specific vocabulary in these text types. New perspectives on vocabulary learning and teaching have led linguists, such as Sinclair (1991), Lewis (1993, 1997 & 2000), Hoey (2005), Meunier & Granger (2008) and Schmitt (2010), among others, to redefine the Lexicon by claiming that this inventory is not only made up of morphemes and words but also formulaic sequences. Precisely, a single instance of this recurrent language phenomenon is defined as, “a sequence continuous or discontinuous, of words” [...] “which is, or appears to be prefabricated: that is, stored and retrieved whole from memory at the time of use, rather than being subject to generation or analysis by the language grammar" (Wray 2002: 9). In this exploratory study, we set out to investigate the recurrence of FSs in unabridged versions of myths and legends from different parts of the world in English. We report on a number of steps that were followed in order to build a small corpus of FSs which are inherent in these narrative text types. A subsequent selection of those strings of words which are both frequently used and pedagogically relevant for ESL primary school students from this corpus will lead to the design of teaching material for this group of young learners. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Facultad de Lenguas 2019 Text parte de libro https://bibliotecadelenguas.uncoma.edu.ar/items/show/440 https://bibliotecadelenguas.uncoma.edu.ar/files/original/3ac84a7ffa89d62498466e0ba8f50f6d.pdf <div class="csl-bib-body"> <div class="csl-entry">Espinosa, Gonzalo Eduardo, Fernández Beschtedt, Mercedes, Formiga, Paola, & Verdú, María Angélica (Eds.). (2019). <i>Conocimiento y diversidad en el estudio y la enseñanza de lenguas · Biblioteca Digital de la Facultad de Lenguas. Universidad Nacional del Comahue</i>. Neuquén: Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Facultad de Lenguas. <strong><a href="http://bibliotecadelenguas.uncoma.edu.ar/items/show/426">VER</a></strong></div> <span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft_id=urn%3Aisbn%3A978-987-46558-1-3&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Conocimiento%20y%20diversidad%20en%20el%20estudio%20y%20la%20ense%C3%B1anza%20de%20lenguas%20%C2%B7%20Biblioteca%20Digital%20de%20la%20Facultad%20de%20Lenguas.%20Universidad%20Nacional%20del%20Comahue&rft.place=Neuqu%C3%A9n&rft.publisher=Universidad%20Nacional%20del%20Comahue.%20Facultad%20de%20Lenguas&rft.au=undefined&rft.au=undefined&rft.au=undefined&rft.au=undefined&rft.au=undefined&rft.date=2019&rft.tpages=265&rft.isbn=978-987-46558-1-3&rft.language=Espa%C3%B1ol"></span></div>
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description	Fictional narrative texts such as short stories, novels, fables, legends and myths share certain grammatical, lexical and stylistic features that make them unique. For this reason, it is of prime importance that students of English as a foreign language deal with this specificity in the classroom especially by exploring how ideas are developed and how meaning is conveyed through the use of specific vocabulary in these text types. New perspectives on vocabulary learning and teaching have led linguists, such as Sinclair (1991), Lewis (1993, 1997 & 2000), Hoey (2005), Meunier & Granger (2008) and Schmitt (2010), among others, to redefine the Lexicon by claiming that this inventory is not only made up of morphemes and words but also formulaic sequences. Precisely, a single instance of this recurrent language phenomenon is defined as, “a sequence continuous or discontinuous, of words” [...] “which is, or appears to be prefabricated: that is, stored and retrieved whole from memory at the time of use, rather than being subject to generation or analysis by the language grammar" (Wray 2002: 9). In this exploratory study, we set out to investigate the recurrence of FSs in unabridged versions of myths and legends from different parts of the world in English. We report on a number of steps that were followed in order to build a small corpus of FSs which are inherent in these narrative text types. A subsequent selection of those strings of words which are both frequently used and pedagogically relevant for ESL primary school students from this corpus will lead to the design of teaching material for this group of young learners.
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title	Peeping into myths and legends for chunks: an exploratory study
title_short	Peeping into myths and legends for chunks: an exploratory study
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title_fullStr	Peeping into myths and legends for chunks: an exploratory study
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publisher	Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Facultad de Lenguas
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