The Most Frequent Idioms Used in Contemporary American English: A Corpus-based Study

As a fascinating and colorful part of English language, idioms highly affect fluency, but they are quite difficult to teach and learn, and they have often been neglected particularly in ESL/EFL settings. Considering the large number of English idioms, corpus linguistics can be of great benefit in pr...

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Main Authors: Elaheh Rafatbakhsh, Alireza Ahmadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Isfahan 2020-04-01
Series:Applied Research on English Language
Subjects:
efl
Online Access:https://are.ui.ac.ir/article_24238_d247a71eb2906e5271d5d9ac5cff5680.pdf