The Effect of the Etymological Elaboration and Rote Memorization on Learning Idioms by Iranian EFL Learners

Noroozi, Iraj; Salehi, Hadise

doi:10.4304/jltr.4.4.845-851

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“…Moreover, Noroozi and Salehi (2013) investigated potential impacts of the etymological elaboration and rote memorization on the learning of the English idioms by Iranian EFL learners. Sixty students of the Iranmehr Language School were selected among a total number of 100 based on their performance on a Nelson proficiency test.…”

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A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of Two Strategies of Etymological Elaboration and Pictorial Elucidation on Idiom Learning: A Case of Young EFL Iranian Learners

Haghshenas¹,

Hashemian²

2016

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This study examined the effect of etymological elaboration, pictorial elucidation, and integration of these 2 strategies on idiom learning by L2 learners. A total number of 80 homogeneous intermediate learners studying English at 3 language institutes in Isfahan, Iran, were selected. The intermediate participants were selected as the result of administering an Oxford Placement Test (OPT) to them. Then, the participants were divided into 4 groups of equal size, that is, control, etymological, pictorial, and etymological/pictorial groups. Before the experiment, all the participants took a pretest to ensure their unfamiliarity with the idioms. The idioms that were known even by 1 participant were crossed out, and finally 30 idioms were chosen for instruction. Then, the experimental groups received their relevant treatments during 15 sessions, whereas the control group learners learned idioms through definitions and example sentences. After the implementation of the experiment, the 4 groups, once again, sat for a test (i.e., the immediate posttest) to see whether the treatments had improved idiom learning. Finally, the data were analyzed by an independent samples t test and one-way between-groups ANOVA. Results showed that all the 3 strategies significantly improved the participants' idiom learning. Results also pointed to the fact that the etymological elaboration/pictorial elucidation strategy was the most effective strategy on idiom learning.

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A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of Two Strategies of Etymological Elaboration and Pictorial Elucidation on Idiom Learning: A Case of Young EFL Iranian Learners

Haghshenas¹,

Hashemian²

2016

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“…Memory decline only becomes apparent once people reach older age, until then our memories remain pretty stable throughout our lives. It must also be mentioned that despite its advantages, using rote memorisation as the primary mode of study certainly is not without its criticisms (see, Jimarez, 2005;Khoii & Sharififar, 2013;Noroozi & Salehi, 2013). One issue often raised is that by fixating on getting individual words and sentences perfectly correct -in isolation from everything else -students using this technique may struggle to see the bigger picture and that fail to understand how different concepts interlink with each other.…”

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The Impact of Quranic Memorisation on Students’ English Language Performance

Rosly¹,

Mohamed²,

Ismail@Ahmad³

et al. 2022

IJARPED

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The study aims at recognizing the effects of Quranic memorisation on students' English language performance. In general, numerous secondary-level institutions in Malaysia are practising 30 Juz Quranic memorisation syllabuses to encourage the students to fathom the art of Quranic memorisation. Therefore, this study was conducted to rule out that Quranic memorisation can bring about a great impact on the student's academic performance generally and in the English language specifically. For the said effects, 208 Huffaz (N=208) of different ages from 2 schools were approached. Results were compiled and analysed using SPSS. The results revealed a significant relationship between memorising Al-Quran and academic performance precisely in English language subjects. Thus, it can be summed up that memorising Al-Quran should be paid attention to as it plays a vital role in contributing to students' excellent academic performance.

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“…Beginning with instructional interventions, numerous studies have explored the approach of providing students with an etymological elaboration of the idiom, which may come before presenting them with its meaning [1] [5] [6]. With rare exceptions, this approach has been found to be effective whether the study uses the Boers CALL tool, as in the studies above, or is implemented within a classroom without it [2] [27]. A more common approach is to present students with a picture of the literal meaning of the idiom [12] [15] [34].…”

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“…This can occur even among learners who have attained a high level of English proficiency. Idioms, many of which have word origins rooted in historical fact, deeply reflect culture [16] [19] [20] [27]. Learners who acquire awareness of the cultural context of a word or phrase are likely to avoid such confusion and acquire what Liontas [19] [21] calls Idiomatic Competence, the ability to use an idiom with relatively little effort and in an appropriate way.…”

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Vivid Phrasal Idioms and the Green New Deal Teaching Idioms to EAP Students Via Authentic Contexts

Larsen-Walker¹

2019

Proceedings of the Third International Conference, Europhras 2019, Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology

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Vivid phrasal Idioms (VP Idioms), meaning non-compositional, figurative phrases such as "spill the beans," occur frequently in English, particularly in conversation [23]. They occur also in the presentational mode, as exemplified by newscasts and political speeches. Yet research suggests that course books for ELLs inadequately address idioms [16,19,20]. The current study investigates the effects of exposing learners to VP Idioms in an authentic audiovisual context as recommended by previous research [9,19,20,22]. The authentic context used in this study features U.S. Representative Ocasio-Cortez narrating a story that explains the Green New Deal, a plan which mandates an aggressive course of action to combat Global Climate Change. The instructional intervention and data collection took place within one in-tact classroom, wherein the participants passed through both the experimental (authentic context) and control conditions. Participants accessed an instructional website for images and definitions of the six key VP Idioms, three each for the control and experimental phases. Then they viewed "A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" [17] and read the associated script. Student-written dialogues, each of which contain one of the key VP Idioms, were the main data source. Results and pedagogical implications will be discussed.

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The Effect of the Etymological Elaboration and Rote Memorization on Learning Idioms by Iranian EFL Learners

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of Two Strategies of Etymological Elaboration and Pictorial Elucidation on Idiom Learning: A Case of Young EFL Iranian Learners

A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of Two Strategies of Etymological Elaboration and Pictorial Elucidation on Idiom Learning: A Case of Young EFL Iranian Learners

The Impact of Quranic Memorisation on Students’ English Language Performance

Vivid Phrasal Idioms and the Green New Deal Teaching Idioms to EAP Students Via Authentic Contexts

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