A thematic corpus-based study of idioms in the Corpus of Contemporary American English

Abstract The traditional approach to presenting idioms relies mainly on teachers’ or materials writers’ judgement, one-by-one and quite incidentally; and the existing teaching materials and references for idioms are mostly intuition-based. However, a more recent approach to better teaching and learn...

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Main Authors: Elaheh Rafatbakhsh, Alireza Ahmadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-10-01
Series:Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40862-019-0076-4