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Art Education; Educational Strategies; Elementary Education; Freehand Drawing; Grade 3; Grade 4; Idioms; Interdisciplinary Approach; Language Arts; Painting (Visual Arts)

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Presents an interdisciplinary lesson that combines art and language arts. Explains that third and fourth grade students explored the meanings of different idioms and created a picture showing the literal meaning of an idiom. Includes a list of art materials. (CMK)

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English (Second Language); German; Idioms; Language Research; Native Speakers; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning

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Investigated judgments native speakers of German make about the decomposability of English idioms. Findings were analyzed and compared to native judgments. Introduces the Model of Dual Idiom Representation to explain the differences between the two groups. (Author/VWL)

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Academic Discourse; Computational Linguistics; English (Second Language); Idioms; Language Styles; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning

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Addresses the advantages and limitations of a corpus-based approach to researching and teaching idioms in a specific genre by drawing on a specialized corpus of 1.7 million words of academic discourse, the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English. Argues that evidence from such a corpus can be informative for language teachers when the primary target language domain matches that of the corpus. (Author/VWL) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Academic Standards; Idioms; Metacognition; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Spanish; Syntax; Teaching Methods; Translation

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A pedagogical idea for addressing National Standard 4.1 (Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of language studied and their own) suggests the deliberate use of the online translator to illustrate to students the syntactical errors that occur when translating idioms from one language to another. (VWL)

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Higher Education; Idioms; Phrase Structure; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Spanish; Verbs

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Describes the results of a study conducted with 28 adult third-year learners of Spanish to investigate the degree to which idiom type affects the speed and ease of idiom comprehension and interpretation, and the effect that context exerts on idiom understanding. Findings are discussed. (VWL)

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Ambiguity; Auditory Perception; English (Second Language); Idioms; Native Speakers; Second Language Learning

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Investigated the abilities of second language speakers to discriminate the prosodic contrasts between idiomatic and literal meanings of ambiguous sentences using utterances previously shown to be reliably identified by acoustic cues. (Author/VWL)

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College Students; Context Effect; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Idioms; Language Proficiency; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning

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Investigated the probable effect of different contexts on learning idioms, as well as the interaction between learning idioms in different contexts and English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners' language proficiency. Findings revealed that different contexts and proficiency levels had significant effects on EFL learners' acquisition of idioms; the interaction between context and subjects' proficiency level was not significant. (Author/VWL) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Adolescents; Context Clues; Context Effect; Cultural Awareness; Grade 8; Idioms; Knowledge Level; Language Impairments; Performance Factors; Reading Ability; Reading Comprehension; Rural Areas; Secondary Education

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Ninety-five rural eighth graders completed the Idiom Comprehension Test in three contexts: idioms in a short story, in isolation, and in a verification task. Performance in the story condition and on high-familiarity idioms showed the greatest accuracy. Associations existed between performance and reading ability for the story and verification conditions. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

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Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Idioms; Portuguese; Second Language Learning; Sociolinguistics; Standard Spoken Usage; Uncommonly Taught Languages

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This dictionary is intended to bridge the gap between the basic, generally simple language learned in the classroom and the preponderance of nonformal and idiomatic language used in Brazilian society on all levels and in contemporary Brazilian literature. It is the product of 15 years of systematic research involving interviews and conversations with a variety of informants from 17 of Brazil's 24 states. The main body of the dictionary contains over 7,500 Brazilian expressions, indicates their frequency of usage, defines them in English, and illustrates how they are used, generally with a model sentence. In the English index, the main-body entries are grouped and listed again under general, colloquial English headings. (Contains 51 references.) (SM) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Adults; French; German; Idioms; Questionnaires; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Spanish; Student Attitudes

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Reports results from two questionnaires given to third-year adult learners of Spanish, French, German on beliefs regarding idiomaticity. Analysis of data showed that learners want idioms to be part of their language learning; they can predict their performances on idiomatic tasks; and they have specific beliefs on the importance of learning idioms, the nature of idiomatic learning, and strategies likely to facilitate such learning.(Author/VWL) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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