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