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Teaching Idioms and Figures of Speech to Non-Native Speakers of English.
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Adkins, Patricia G. – Modern Language Journal, 1968
A review of the difficulties Spanish-Americans and Mexican-Americans encounter in learning English, caused by a lack of knowledge of common idioms and figures of speech in current usage, leads to a discussion of two pilot studies in which the frequency of occurrence of idiomatic and figurative constructions in the reading materials presented to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, English (Second Language), Expressive Language