Cat Got Your Tongue?: Teaching Idioms to English Learners

ISBN-13: 9781942223221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 294 str.

Paul McPherron

Opis

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 idioms from theoretical and pedagogical literature, focusing in particular on cognitive, cross-linguistic, and socialconstructionist research. Second is a summary and critique of idiomtextbooks and classroom practices from around the world.