Hoey (1991) claims that lexical patterns, which are a network of repetitious and
synonymous words of a text, can be identified even by elementary foreign language
readers. The present study investigates whether intermediate Japanese EFL readers
can actually find elements of lexical patterns of a text Hoey uses in his book to
demonstrate the concept of lexical patterns Pedagogical implications of using
lexical patterns in teaching reading to English language learners are also discussed.
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