Chapter 1 Meme,Formulaic Language and Effective Input 1
1.1 Definition of formulaic language 2
1.2 Formulaic language and writing competence 4
Chapter 2 Formulaic Language and Effective Input 6
2.1 Lexical input 7
2.2 Syntactic input 14
2.3 Paragraph input 28
2.4 Whole composition input 49
Chapter 3 Memetics and English Writing 75
3.1 Memetics 75
3.2 Memetics and language 76
3.3 Three qualities of a successful meme 77
3.4 Memes and language learning 79
3.5 Imitation and memes 80
Chapter 4 Research and Experiment 82
4.1 Pre-test stage 83
4.2 While-test stage 83
4.3 Post-test stage 84
Chapter 5 Concl usion 90
Reference 93
Appendices 95