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Literature Review of Prefabricated Chunks 　　 　　作者简介：何微微（1980-），女，汉族，四川自贡人，助教，硕士，主要从事应用语言学、英语教学法研究。 　　Abstract：This article provides an overview of the research on prefabricated chunks both at home and abroad.It describes the definition of prefabricated chunks，its classifications，and the related research in this field.This paper emphasizes that the application of prefabricated chunks has important implications to English teaching and learning in China. 　　Key words：prefabricated chunks；definition；classifications；SLA research 　　1.Introduction 　　In recent years，the role of prefabricated chunks in language teaching and learning has been in the focus of attention of many language teachers and researchers.The ever awareness of prefabricated chunks in native-speaker performance leads to rethinking the approaches to language teaching and learning. 　　Prefabricated chunks are language units which exit with high frequency in language.They are composites of grammar，semantics and pragmatics.They play a vital role in everyday communication，contributing to the ease，fluency and appropriateness in listening，speaking，reading and writing.Therefore，teaching prefabricated chunks is a new language pedagogical theory，and it is based on the rationale that language consists not of traditional grammar and vocabulary but often of multi-word prefabricated chunks. 　　2.The definition of prefabricated chunks 　　Attempts have been made to explore the phenomenon of prefabricated chunks in both first and second language acquisition.The particular language is characterized with “ready-made” or “unanalyzed whole”.Different commentators use overlapping terms to describe this phenomenon，such as prefabricated chunks （Becker，1975 Bolinger，1976），formulaic utterances （Fillmore Wong，1976），formulaic speech （Ellis，1985），routine formulas （Yorio，1980），lexical chunks （Michael Lewis，1993），formulaic expression （Fillmore Wong，1976），speech formulas （Peters，1977）.However，no coherent term and definiti