This presentation discusses the principles underlying a battery of tests designed to measure the acquisition of vocabulary in terms of formulaic sequences (FSs) in EFL primary school children participating in an explicit instruction research experience (Wray, 2002). Examples of different testing activity types to measure both receptive and…

This presentation describes an in-service training course offered to EFL teachers in primary and secondary schools on the teaching and learning of formulaic sequences (Wray, 2002) and its evaluation process. Whereas the formative assessment of participants’ intake of the course’s contents pointed to the successful incorporation of concepts and…