Pedagogy of English Idioms: An Etymological Perspective

Qureshi, Abrar Hussain; Anwar, Behzad; Tahir, Adnan Ahmad

doi:10.5539/ijel.v8n3p270

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“…With English as a lingua franca (ELF), and people around the world learning English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL), English learners encounter English idioms frequently. Because of the “multidimensionality” of English idioms, they play an essential role and have received great attention recently, especially in EFL research (Qureshi et al, 2018). However, non-native speakers usually have difficulty understanding idioms, even though they may have a large vocabulary, because the meaning of English idioms goes beyond literal meanings (Liontas, 2003; Xie, 2017), so that the meaning of idioms often can’t be decoded by interpreting the individual words (Khonbi & Sadeghi, 2017).…”

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Analysis of English Idiomatic Learning Behaviors of an Audio-Visual Mobile Application

Lin

Marek

et al. 2021

Sage Open

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Employment of idioms is essential to reach higher English expressive levels, especially for English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners. However, English idioms are challenging for both instructors and learners because the complex content of idioms depends on understanding their cultural context. Most mobile language applications are for vocabulary acquisition. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop an animation/video-based application, “My English Idiom Learning Assistant” (MEILA), to explore the different idiom learning behaviors, as well as the relationships of their learning behaviors to MEILA. To explore the relationship between the learning outcomes and the learning behaviors, the researcher used logs from the MEILA database. The participants consisted of 59 freshmen from two English conversation classes in one private university in central Taiwan. Students experienced the learning activities over 3 weeks. The researcher adopted idiomatic understanding pre- and posttests for the study as well as in-depth interviews. The results revealed that MEILA significantly enhanced idiomatic learning outcomes. The sequential analysis used provides language instructors an example of monitoring learning behaviors to improve teaching materials and methods. The findings may stimulate more mobile-assist language learning (MALL) researchers, English instructors, and app designers to create innovative mobile environments for English idiomatic learning.

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Analysis of English Idiomatic Learning Behaviors of an Audio-Visual Mobile Application

Lin

Marek

et al. 2021

Sage Open

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“…The importance of learning idioms for classroom practices has been studied by Qureshi et al (2018) and the study revealed the EFL idioms presented with etymological background make a lasting impact on the overall comprehension of language. Orfan (2020) highlighted a better understanding of idioms is a requirement for English proficiency and accuracy despite some challenges in learning idioms in classroom context.…”

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Behind a spoken discourse: Idiomatic expressions in IELTS speaking test

Aridasarie

Tabiati

2022

ELTF

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The performance of a wider range of vocabulary mastery in IELTS speaking test is imperative to escalate the band score achievement. The present study sought to investigate the teaching of idioms in an IELTS preparation program with regards to the kinds of idioms taught in the class, how the students used them during the mock post test, and whether the use of idioms interfere with the grammatical accuracy. The study was in urgency to be conducted with regards to the absence of the teaching of idioms for IELTS at least in the past five years. The data were collected from the recorded speaking performance of five students at intermediate level of English, in both mock pretest and post test to see if there were some alterations in the predicted test score and a deep interview with one candidate to have strengthen the arguments. The results showed significant differences in the students’ performance of speaking in pretest and after they were taught idioms despite some less accurate grammar in the sentence productions. The findings of the study can have potential pedagocical implications for teachers of IELTS preparation classes to incorporate the teaching of idioms in either speaking or vocabulary lessons.

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“…Furthermore, investigating systemic variation types of modified idioms in journalism context has not been reported in the literature. No collection of modified idioms has been recorded as previous research focused on the purpose of pedagogy (Anwar, Tahir & Qureshi, 2018). Such an investigation will indeed provide insight in understanding the use of modified idioms and study frequency of modified idioms will indicate a degree of familiarity.…”

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A Study of Systemic Variation and Frequency of Modified Idioms In Forbes Asia and The Economist

Payo

Singh

2020

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Modified idioms or idioms with variation are figurative language that pose many semantic problems especially to non-native speakers of English. Apparently, a change in idiom form causes the message to be misunderstood by the non-native speakers as they lack familiarity of the modified idioms. Therefore, this case study aims to investigate the type and frequency of systemic variation of modified idioms found in Forbes Asia and The Economist. Glucksberg's (2001) textual analysis framework on modified idioms is applied as part of the qualitative analysis. The results of the study indicate that omitted, modified idioms with noun variation, and modified idioms with verb variation are types of systemic variation of modified idioms that are familiar to users. The findings of this study contributes toward identifying the type and frequency of modified idioms which affect familiarity and comprehension among readers of Forbes Asia and The Economist. Thus, the promotion of variation of modified idioms should focus more on types of variations with none or limited emergence of familiarity.

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Pedagogy of English Idioms: An Etymological Perspective

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Analysis of English Idiomatic Learning Behaviors of an Audio-Visual Mobile Application

Analysis of English Idiomatic Learning Behaviors of an Audio-Visual Mobile Application

Behind a spoken discourse: Idiomatic expressions in IELTS speaking test

A Study of Systemic Variation and Frequency of Modified Idioms In Forbes Asia and The Economist

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