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Traditionally, there has been a clear-cut distinction between vocabulary and grammar in foreign language teaching. The prevailing attitude has been that vocabulary is about learning words, whereas grammar is about learning rules and generalisable patterns based on sentences. Vocabulary consists of a specific set of lexical items while the main function of grammar is to put words together in a rule-governed manner to construct new phrases and sentences.
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Hutz, M. (2018). Focus on Form—The Lexico-Grammar Approach. In: Surkamp, C., Viebrock, B. (eds) Teaching English as a Foreign Language. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04480-8_8
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