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Cat Got Your Tongue? Teaching Idioms to English Learners
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Mcpherron, Paul; Randolph, Patrick T. – TESOL International Association, 2014
Why do questions about idioms often leave us "tongue-tied" in our classrooms? This book takes a look at learning and teaching idioms from two perspectives. First is a survey of recent work on learning and teaching idioms from diverse perspectives in the linguistics and educational research literature. The survey includes definitions of…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Literature Reviews