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

Grant, L
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This 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.
Keywords
Figurative idioms; Spoken American English; British National Corpus; Multiword units (MWUs); EFL/ESL teaching
Date
2007
Source
System, vol. 35(2) pp.169 - 181
Item Type
Journal Article
Publisher
Elsevier
DOI
10.1016/j.system.2006.05.004
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Copyright © 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)

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