Why does reliance on formulaic sequences impede L2 learners' novel sentence generation?

💡 Explanation

Formulaic language acquisition can reduce the pressure to internalize generative syntactic rules, because learners rely on memorized chunks rather than deconstructing and recombining elements. Therefore, syntactic rule abstraction is inhibited, rather than memory load being the core issue.

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