Noticing Formulaic Sequences—A Problem of Measuring the Subjective

Abstract

An important idea in second language acquisition is Schmitt’s noticing hypothesis, which asserts the importance of consciousness in second language learning, and which has recently been applied to the hitherto neglected area of vocabulary acquisition. One problem area of the lexicon for second language learners of English is the acquisition of formulaic sequences, which are holistically deployed lexical strings that contribute to fluent target language performance. It was hypothesized that the problem second language users have with formulaic sequences is that they are not noticed and as a result they are not learned. This paper describes how an experiment was carried out to test whether noticing occurs. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that second language readers do not notice unknown formulaic sequences.

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