After his recent On Language column on chunking, Ben Zimmer at the Visual Thesaurus asked me to explain why I'm skeptical about the value of teaching many chunks and collocations. I put my thinking together in a column that is published at VT today.
Thanks for the links. I appreciated the moderate argument for/against the teaching of chunking. Just like any vocabulary teaching, it's best done in context and by keeping in mind frequency and use.
Thanks for the links. I appreciated the moderate argument for/against the teaching of chunking. Just like any vocabulary teaching, it's best done in context and by keeping in mind frequency and use.
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