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• Chunking: strategy of "picking up" and imitating phrases in a second language.
• Chunks of language are phrases or multiple-word units remembered as a whole.
• Second-language-learners remember and imitate verbatim chunks of language when those chunks are meaningful and serve a purpose.
• Second-language-learners use chunks even before they figure out how to use components separately.
• Structures or chunks practiced in mechanistic language drills are seldom transferred or used in natural communicative settings (why?)