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Teaching Idioms In Foreign Language

Author(s): Elif Arıca Akkök
Subject(s): Language studies, Education, Foreign languages learning, Semantics, Cognitive linguistics
Published by: Ankara Üniversitesi TÖMER
Keywords: teaching idioms; idioms; metaphor; metonymy; cognitive semantics;

Summary/Abstract: In this study, a teaching process, which aims to overcome difficulties of teaching English idioms, is put forward and its effect on students is tested. During the process, idioms were conceptualized and classified according to their semantic and cognitive properties, and the students’ awareness on these properties was raised. 56 students constituting the study group were assigned randomly and evenly as the experiment and control groups. A pre-test post-test experimental design was used. The data collected was analysed by repeated measures design. The results show that the teaching process has made the students in the experiment group develop positive learning behaviour and has operated as an effective variable on learning English idioms.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 143
  • Page Range: 59-77
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Turkish