TY - JOUR
T1 - Opening Pandora’s box: A corpus-based study of idioms in ELT materials
AU - Chen, Y. H.
AU - Wang, L.
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PY - 2016/12/31
Y1 - 2016/12/31
N2 - Idiomatic expressions have increasingly received attention in ELT over the past few decades as they are an indispensable part of our daily communication. Depending on the degree of literalness, Fernando (1996) divides idioms into three categories: pure (non-literal), semi-literal and literal (as illustrated in TABLE 1). As pure idioms, often linguistic metaphors, tend to be understood figuratively, they are considered ‘the most ambiguous multi-word expression’ within the three classifications (Hummer & Stathi, 2006). Characterized by the feature of semantic opacity, pure idioms often cause great difficulty for L2 learners and are therefore
the focus of the current study.
AB - Idiomatic expressions have increasingly received attention in ELT over the past few decades as they are an indispensable part of our daily communication. Depending on the degree of literalness, Fernando (1996) divides idioms into three categories: pure (non-literal), semi-literal and literal (as illustrated in TABLE 1). As pure idioms, often linguistic metaphors, tend to be understood figuratively, they are considered ‘the most ambiguous multi-word expression’ within the three classifications (Hummer & Stathi, 2006). Characterized by the feature of semantic opacity, pure idioms often cause great difficulty for L2 learners and are therefore
the focus of the current study.
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U2 - 10.18823/asiatefl.2016.13.4.10.381
DO - 10.18823/asiatefl.2016.13.4.10.381
M3 - Article
VL - 13
SP - 381
EP - 390
JO - Journal of Asia TEFL
JF - Journal of Asia TEFL
IS - 4
ER -