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2021, Academia Letters
This study aims at investigating the effect of WhatsApp on teaching English idioms to EFL students. The data were collected from 33 B1 level students. The researchers provided the students with three idioms per week for five weeks via WhatsApp. The participants found sample sentences, shared them in their WhatsApp groups, and had discussions in English regarding the use and meaning of the idioms. Students were given an achievement test and a sub-sample group of students were interviewed to see the effectiveness of this application. The results revealed how students benefited from WhatsApp as a learning tool and their reactions to mobile learning outside the classroom context. The findings highlight the place of mobile learning in foreign language education. Keywords: EFL, mobile learning, teaching idioms, WhatsApp
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Using Short Message Service (SMS) to teach English idioms to EFL students2013 •
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The Influence of Idioms Acquisition on Enhancing English Students Fluency2021 •
Proficiency in figurative language is a challenging aspect of second language acquisition. An essential component of figurative fluency and proficiency is knowledge of idioms. Mastery of these formulaic sequences has been considered as an important indicator of communicative competence, enabling speakers to use the language both fluently and idiomatically. However, learning such essentially perplexing constructs poses a lot of challenges to EFL students, and thus they need to get immersed in language skills provided by teachers. The purpose of language acquisition is to achieve effective communication. Being communicatively competent helps language learners to avoid any kind of breakdown of communication, and therefore reaching fluency is the main goal of EFL learners. Thus, this quantitative study is an attempt to explore the influence of idioms acquisition on enhancing English students' fluency. The study has been carried out with twenty lecturers where a five-point Likert-sca...
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Idioms, indeed, constitute a notoriously difficult area of foreign language learning and teaching because, by definition, idioms are conventionalized expressions whose overall meaning cannot be determined from the meaning of their constituent parts, and they are conceived as the natural decoders of cultural aspects in real life settings and a major component of native-like communication. Thus, the issue of teaching idioms in EFL classroom needs a special pedagogical method to foster the learners’ communicative skills. The current research paper attempts to scrutinize the impact of the cooperative learning of idioms upon EFL learners’ fluency. Therefore, it follows a one group pretest/post-test quasi-experimental design, with a sample group of fifteen (15) first-year students at the Department of English at M’ sila University. Their fluency was evaluated before and after the intervention sessions within which the participants were requested to implement peer-to-peer tutoring for a wh...
The Language Learning Journal
Idiom acquisition by second language learners: The influence of cross-linguistic similarity and context2016 •
This study of second language idiom acquisition investigates the interaction of two factors, the L1 effect and the effect of supportive context in the L2 input, when both are available to learners. An experiment consisting of a pretest, a computer-assisted instructional treatment session, and a posttest employed three idiom types that differed in terms of shared similarities in first and second languages (Same L1–L2: identical linguistic form and figurative meaning; Different L1–L2: identical linguistic form but different figurative meaning; L2 Only: occurs only in L2), and three task types (a production, an interpretation, and a meaning task). On the pretest, participants’ scores were the highest for Same L1–L2 type idioms in all tasks. On the posttest, participants’ scores were the highest for L2 Only type idioms in all tasks. The analysis of the posttest scores found significant main effects of idiom types and of tasks, indicating a strong treatment effect. This study’s findings suggest that the influence of crosslinguistic similarity is lessened when supportive context is available in the instructional input, and that learners can learn L2 idioms, regardless of degree of L1–L2 similarity, when instructional input includes enough context.
odern language studies
The Effects of Two Technological Tools on Idiom Learning of Iranian EFL Learners:A MALL Perspective2016 •
This study aimed at exploring the effects of Telegram messenger and movie clips on idiom learning of Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 59 students were assigned to two experimental and one control group. In the control group, the idioms were taught conventionally using definitions and examples, but in the movie clips group the same idioms were taught by playing them on TV, and in the Telegram group, they were taught by sending pictures consisting of their definition and example. Finally, the participants in the Telegram and the movie clips groups completed a 10-item questionnaire to find out their attitudes toward learning idioms. The results revealed that both the Telegram and movie clips groups significantly outperformed the control group in the posttest. Thus, they can be used as effective educational tools for learning idioms and can help teachers to use and apply them in English courses to improve idiom learning. Moreover, the results of the questionnaires showed that the participants had positive attitudes towards using Telegram messenger and movie clips in learning idioms.
Blinova, O. (2021) Teaching idioms in English as a second language : an analysis of issues and solutions. INTED2021 Proceedings, pp. 324-328.
Teaching idioms in English as a second language : an analysis of issues and solutions2021 •
Idioms are said to mirror the culture of the language. As it happens with most culturally-determined language aspects, idioms pose great difficulties for learners (Prodromou 2003; Tran, 2012; Vasiljevic, 2011), to the point where some teachers avoid dealing with idioms in the classroom altogether (Tran, 2012). Prodromou (2003) speaks of an "idiomatic paradox", where native speakers rely on idioms in spoken discourse, while even advanced learners struggle, finding them elusive. However, many scholars insist on teaching idioms in an EFL classroom. Celce-Murcia (2008) proposes a communicative competence model, where one of the competences (figurative) rests on the ability to use idioms. CEFR includes idiomatic expressions in its band descriptions (Council of Europe 2012). All this makes a case for including idioms in academic syllabi. The paper explores the reasons why idioms present immense difficulties for learners. I start by reviewing existing scholarly approaches to definitions and taxonomy of idiomatic expressions and proceed to identifying the common issues that EFL learners face. I then outline suggestions to deal with those issues. The latter are based on successful case studies from teaching idioms in EFL classroom to L1 Russian and Turkish speakers.
2019 •
Idiomatic expressions, are considered an important topic in the English lexicon and becoming acquainted with them is fundamental for those who desire to enhance their fluency in this language. Nonetheless, due to the nature of these expressions, many students face difficulties when trying to learn them. Fortunately, with the advance of technology, new strategies have been implemented in the educational field and the teaching-learning process of foreign-languages have improved significantly. From this perspective, this article aims to present a prototype of a cross-platform mobile application for learning idiomatic expressions in English, emphasizing the importance of gamification as a relevant tool from a pedagogical viewpoint.
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