English idioms
Expression Plane of English Idioms in Gender Semantics Studies
... of idioms. Dominants of the expression plane of English idioms are selected in the process of ...of idioms are also taken into ...of English idioms in the first stage of research ...
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The Effect of Role-Play through Dialogues vs. Written Practice on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ Knowledge of English Idioms
... The current study aimed at making a comparison between two methods, namely dialogue role play and written practice, for EFL learners’ idiomatic competence. In other words, the aim of this study was to determine the ...
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Figurative Idiomatic Language: Strategies and Difficulties of Understanding English Idioms
... Learning idioms which is considered a very essential part of learning and using language (Sridhar and Karunakaran, 2013) has recently attracted a great attention of English learning researchers particularly ...
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A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Teaching English Idioms to EFL Students: Experimental Results
... teaching English idioms to EFL students. English idioms expose their inherent difficulties to EFL learners because people of different languages usually have different ...in idioms do ...
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Acquisition of English Idioms by Adult L1 Arabic Speakers
... the idioms that were taken and translated from the Arabic ...of English language ...used English in their academic affairs and in their communication at the ...the English idioms ...
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Difficulties Facing Iranian EFL Senior High School Learners and Strategies They Use to Understand English Idioms
... that idioms were challenging mainly because they were not taught well in class and were not part of course ...understanding idioms, successful learners used all six categories of strategies in the high and ...
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THE PARADOX OF LEARNING ENGLISH IDIOMS IN NON NATIVE CONTEXT: CHALLENGES AND IMPLICATIONS
... sufficient. Idioms and phrases reflect the dialect utilized day to day by the local speakers of the objective ...that Idioms and phrases ought to be acquainted with students at right time as conceivable ...
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Etymological Elaboration As A Pedagogical Approach: Insights From Applied Linguistics
... Abstract: Idioms are regarded as problematic to teach and, a fortiori, difficult for second language learners to comprehend due to the arbitrariness of their meanings and ...of English idioms in ...
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Second language idiom learning in a paired-associate paradigm. Effects of direction of learning, direction of testing, idiom imageability, and idiom tranparency.
... an English idiom and a Dutch equivalent; see Appendix! were used as stimulus material+ The idioms were selected to fulfill three criteria+ The main selection principle was frequency of the constituent words ...
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Variability in the Syntax of Idioms
... of idioms is not necessarily ...be idioms where the nominal part has no referent of its own, which makes them decidedly non-compositional – such idioms appear with a definite article by ...
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Differences between English and Arabic Body Idioms
... body-related idioms in our daily life and how to use them to communicate easily with ...the idioms are not literally translated, but we understood them from the context of the ...of idioms in the ...
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How to Save Your Skin When Processing L2 Idioms: An Eye Movement Analysis of Idiom Transparency and Cross-language Similarity among Bilinguals
... learn English idioms in L1-L2 or L2-L1 ...L2 idioms, but high transparent idioms did not differ much from low transparent ones on the production ...which idioms are either retrieved ...
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Effects of Spatial Intelligence-based Instruction on Learning Pictorial Idiomatic Expressions in an EFL Context
... (2000),the idioms are difficult to learn and teach for many ...that idioms are not literal and they do not mean what they ...easiest idioms are those which have exact counterparts in the learner’s ...
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Linguistic Assumptions of Idioms in English and Arabic Languages
... between English and Arabic idioms is the classification depending on their structures ...intelligibility English idioms include several categories such as semi-idioms, semi-opaque ...
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The Most Frequent Idioms Used in Contemporary American English: A Corpus-based Study
... of English language, idioms highly affect fluency, but they are quite difficult to teach and learn, and they have often been neglected particularly in ESL/EFL ...of English idioms, corpus ...
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Development of English Punjabi Parallel Corpus for Idioms and Phrases using Automatic Text Alignment Technique
... We performed the alignment/matching experiment and recorded the set of idioms and phrases which aligned to their target language equivalents and prepared the parallel corpus for the same. Analyzing the recorded ...
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Modification in non-combining idioms
... non-combining idioms allow for modifiers to attach, syntactically, to their internal constituents while, at the same time, the modifier operates on the internal constituent’s ...non-combining idioms are ...
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Invited Talk: Lexicon Embedded Syntax
... First, each phrasal part of speech – nominal idiom, verbal idiom, etc. – is linked to a set of syntactic templates that identify possible syn- tactic structures for idioms belonging to this part of speech. For ...
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Proverbs and Idioms in Children's Books
... use idioms, proverbs, adjectives, and so ...and idioms from one language to another (Saglam, 2001): The first is the difference between languages, or rather, between the source language and target language ...
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Translating Idioms
... word level, in which the chunks are adjacent, as exemplified in 1, while "idiomatic expressions" correspond to MWEs of phrasal level, where chunks may not be adjacent, and m a y undergo [r] ...
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