idiomatic expressions (IEX)
Teachers’ Beliefs about Teaching Idiomatic Expressions: The Case of Iranian EFL Learners
... not aware of their usages. To make the matters worse, some of them are not even familiar with the term idiomatic expressions. Another problem is awareness problem which is related to the students’ awareness ...
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An Investigation into the problems of Understanding and Using Idiomatic Expressions among Sudanese EFL University Students
... (idiomatic expressions) has received a great deal of attention; because idioms have become inseparable part of everyday language and language ...using idiomatic expressions and collocations it ...
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Like Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Annotating the American National Corpus for Idiomatic Expressions
... of idiomatic expressions they found and re-evaluated the tagset, ultimately deciding to use the same tagset for the pilot study as they had used for the trial ...
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African art songs in Nairobi: investigating musical idiomatic expressions in performance practice
... musical expressions, there was no clear distinction between the performance of African and Western art songs during the recital, particularly with respect to performance ...musical idiomatic ...
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Complainable matters: the use of idiomatic expressions in making complaints
... how idiomatic expressions are fitted to manage that task in such a sequential ...figurative expressions have some special resistance to being challenged with concrete, empiri- cal facts, and that ...
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Meaning Loss in the Translated Kimeru Proverbs and Idiomatic Expressions
... and idiomatic expressions into ...and idiomatic expressions in Kiimenti and their respective translations into ...and idiomatic expressions into ...
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Effects of Spatial Intelligence-based Instruction on Learning Pictorial Idiomatic Expressions in an EFL Context
... teach idiomatic expressions was fairly new to ...everyday idiomatic expressions running in close parallel with their interests were included as the content of the ...
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Translating Idiomatic Expressions from English to ISL: Theory and Practice
... This paper discusses the translation of idiomatic expressions from oral Eng- lish to Irish Sign Language (ISL) in an informative video entitled Time for Change. This piece was developed as part of the ...
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Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Non Literal Use of Idiomatic Expressions
... Many approaches for identifying idioms focus on one of these two aspects. For instance, mea- sures that compute the association strength be- tween the elements of an expression have been employed to determine its degree ...
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Translation of Selected Igbo Proverbs and Idiomatic Expressions: Implications for Curbing Economic Recession
... and idiomatic expressions are vivid, colorful, concise, emotive and thought-provoking linguistic ...fixed expressions are sayings or thoughts that constitute the reservoir of the religious, ...
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Teaching Idiomatic Expressions and Phrases: Insights and Techniques
... these expressions whenever and wherever possible in any language ...teaching, idiomatic expressions are far more important and prevalent than mere cultural ...conventionalized expressions have ...
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The Learner’ Levels of Collocation Knowledge and Idiomatic Expressions: Exploring the Relationship of Acquisition of Two Items of Phraseology
... encounter idiomatic ex- pressions, if any will explicitly be presented to ...idiom expressions were measured by means of four rating scales: (1) ‘Very much’; (2) ‘To a cer- tain extent’; (3) ‘Not much’; (4) ...
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Phrasal Substitution of Idiomatic Expressions
... This work explores the possibility of automati- cally replacing idiomatic expressions in sentences. The full pipeline of a successful system has to solve many problems. First, it has to determine that an ...
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Different Strategies Omani EFL Learners Use to Decode English Idiomatic Expressions
... This research project was undertaken to further explore how Omani students experience and learn English idiomatic expressions. English major students at Dhofar University were selected to fill out a rating ...
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Catching Idiomatic Expressions in EFL Essays
... English expressions that were tagged as id- iomatic, from the English Wiktionary of Octo- ber ...of expressions. First, we eliminated all single-word expressions, ...
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Unsupervised Type and Token Identification of Idiomatic Expressions
... Analyzing the errors made by Fixedness lex is more difficult as many factors may affect scores given by this measure. Most important is the quality of the automatically generated variants. We find that in one case, push ...
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Vol 11, No 2 (2020)
... Akanmu (2015) also, in his paper, examines the communicative adaptability of proverbs in political discourse. The paper discusses some political issues which utilize new and deviant idioms and idiomatic ...
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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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The Influence of Cross-linguistic Similarities on L2 Idiom Production
... English idiomatic expressions selected from “Idioms and Metaphorical Expressions in Translation” by Tajalli (2005) and “Essential American idioms (2nd ...English idiomatic expressions ...
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The Comparative Effect of Using Idioms in Conversation and Paragraph Writing on EFL Learners’ Idiom Learning
... Mendis and Simpson (2003), for example, feel that learners should be taught the nature of an idiom first, and then, they should be taught how to guess the meaning from the context. They assert that teachers, then, should ...
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