In a manner of speaking: assessing frequent spoken figurative idioms to assist ESL/EFL teachers

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aut.researcherGrant, Lynn Elaine
dc.contributor.authorGrant, L
dc.date.accessioned2012-01-24T20:35:26Z
dc.date.available2012-01-24T20:35:26Z
dc.date.copyright2007
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractThis article outlines criteria to define a figurative idiom, and then compares the frequent figurative idioms identified in two sources of spoken American English (academic and contemporary) to their frequency in spoken British English. This is done by searching the spoken part of the British National Corpus (BNC), to see whether they are frequent on both sides of the Atlantic, or more common in one country or the other. It also compares the figurative idioms identified as frequent in two British idiom dictionaries to see whether their frequency of occurrence in the BNC justifies their ‘frequent’ label. The main aim of the frequency comparisons is to help teachers decide which, if any, are useful to teach to EFL/ESL students so pedagogical implications are also discussed briefly.
dc.identifier.citationSystem, vol. 35(2) pp.169 - 181
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.system.2006.05.004
dc.identifier.issn0346-251X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/3301
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightsCopyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in (see Citation). Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. The definitive version was published in (see Citation). The original publication is available at (see Publisher's Version)
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subjectFigurative idioms
dc.subjectSpoken American English
dc.subjectBritish National Corpus
dc.subjectMultiword units (MWUs)
dc.subjectEFL/ESL teaching
dc.titleIn a manner of speaking: assessing frequent spoken figurative idioms to assist ESL/EFL teachers
dc.typeJournal Article
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