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Download full textYiding Zhao – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2024
Idioms are highly conventionalized expressions that allow users to express beyond literal meanings. Despite the language difference, counterparts of idioms may overlap cross-culturally due to similar origin, social habits, and experiences. It is therefore interesting to probe whether L2 learners may benefit from deliberate instructions built on…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lotfipour-Saedi, Kazem – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2015
This paper represents some suggestions towards discourse-analytic approaches for ESL/EFL education, with the focus on identifying the textual forms which can contribute to the textual difficulty. Textual difficulty/comprehensibility, rather than being purely text-based or reader-dependent, is certainly a matter of interaction between text and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Difficulty Level, Correlation, Cognitive Ability
