Dr Vicky Murphy talks on research examining figurative vocabulary knowledge in primary school children with EAL, examining collocations (multiword phrases) and idioms and the relative contribution this type of word knowledge makes to literacy development.
Multi-Word Vocabulary and literacy development in children with English as an Additional Language
Dr Vicki Murphy is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at the Department of Education, University of Oxford.
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