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Publication details [#44131]

Govindasamy, Subra and Mohana Nambiar Kahn. 2006. Malay ESL college students' spoken discourse: The use of formulaic expressions. Multilingua 25 (1/2) : 59–76.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

formulaic expression | second language acquisition | spoken language | student

Language as a subject

English, Malaysian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper explores whether Malay English-as-a-second-language undergraduate students employ formulaic expressions in their spoken discourse. There seems to be a tendency among rural students to do so in case of more abstract topics.