Teaching Institutionalized Expressions through News Bulletins

Abstract

 The chief objective of the present study is to introduce news bulletins as a resource to teach institutionalized expressions. In order to attain the main objective, the study outlines the background to the lexical approach and presents the classification of lexical chunks of Lewis taxonomy. It attempts to give a description the term ’institutionalized expressions’ and provides various terminologies used to refer to the expressions. Later on, the study explains the significance of news bulletins in acquiring institutionalized expressions.