Is What You Put in What You Get Out? —Textbook-derived Lexical Bundle Processing in Beginner English Learners

Usage-based approaches to second language acquisition put a premium on the linguistic input that learners receive and predict that any sequences of words that learners encounter frequently will experience a processing advantage. The current study explores the processing of high-frequency sequences of words known as ‘lexical bundles' in beginner learners of English in Japanese secondary school. To do this we use a phrasal judgment task, testing...