In this presentation the teaching of vocabulary is approached in terms of chunks of words. Theoretical issues are explored in relation to Corpus Linguistics perspectives on formulaic language and its impact on the teaching of a foreign language. The advantages of this approach will be analysed and activity samples based on songs will be presented for a B2 learning context.

Introduction
The aim of this paper is to discuss the benefits of explicitly teaching senior EFL learners strings of words in order to raise their awareness of the pervasiveness of formulaic sequences in the foreign language (FL). First, the discussion of the theoretical framework is presented. The context for the study is then described in terms of its participants and the courses’ materials and methodology, after which follows an outline of the research design as regards de different data collection procedures and the analysis of the data. The results are presented for each of the instruments and a discussion ensues of the implications derived from the study.