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Abdullah, Khaled. "The analysis and classification of English idioms : with special reference to the comprehension of English idioms by advanced Syrian learners of English." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263386.

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The study deals with English idioms from a pedagogical point of view. It draws attention to the fact that the use of idioms in a language is such a widespread phenomenon that we cannot continue to ignore them especially in disciplines such as language teaching and language learning. The study attempts to analyse the phenomenon of idioms diachronically and synchronically; to explain the process of idiom comprehension by foreign learners. The subjects of the study were Syrian undergraduates of English, who were largely unaware of the use of idioms among native speakers of English, since the fore

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Vanhanen, Patricia. "Learning while Gaming: Second Language Students’ Acquisition of English Idioms." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-34812.

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Idioms are found in every language, and if one wants to master a language it is important to learn and be able to use idioms while communicating. The English language is no exception. As well as in other languages, idioms are used extensively in the English language. There is also a difference between a literal and an idiomatic meaning of a sentence. If one wants to understand different shades of meaning it is important to know the meaning of idiomatic expressions. For example, “break a leg” is an idiom used commonly when speaking. The literal meaning of the sentence would an instruction by th

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Banjar, Halah. "INTERLANGUAGE IDIOMATICS:THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH IDIOMS BY SAUDI LEARNERS." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1362.

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Mastery of idioms in a second language is an important part of learners' lexical and cultural competence. This study provided insights into the processes that partake in interlanguage idiomatics. It also looked at the role of participants' first language in the comprehension and production of idioms in their second language. Participants were 31 Saudi graduate students' who were learners of English. They were tested in receptive and productive knowledge of 15 English idioms of three types of idiomatic expressions: a) English idioms which have their exact equivalents in Arabic; b) English idiom

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Afram, Eliane. "Idioms in English as a Second Language : Contextualization of L2 idioms (written context versus still pictures) and its effect on students' retention." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-30338.

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The main aim of the present study is to investigate whether there is a difference in retentionbetween two groups of Swedish second language learners of English when they are faced withidioms in a written context or in the form of still pictures. The subjects of the investigation aretwo different groups at a high school in Sweden. Both Group 1 and 2 consist of 24 subjectseach. For this study, 15 idioms were randomly selected. To Group 1, the idioms werepresented in a written context and to Group 2 the idioms were presented in the form of stillpictures. The subjects were given a pre-test and two

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He, Yi Lin Pippa. "A study of translations of Chengyu and four-character phrases in The Notes of a Desolate Man." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953643.

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Johnson, Glenn Albert. "Not another white elephant! : children's understanding of unfamiliar phrasal idioms, or, paralysis by analysis? /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8195.

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Li, Fuyin. "The acquisition of metaphorical expressions, idioms, and proverbs by Chinese learners of English a conceptual metaphor and image schema based approach /." Online version, 2002. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/23210.

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Book, Björn. "Cognitively Motivated Meanings for Idioms : The Metaphorical and Metonymical Structures of two Semantically Equivalent but Structurally Different Idioms in English and Swedish." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-121958.

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This paper analyses the similarities and differences of the cognitive structures of the English-Swedish idiom pair to step into someone’s shoes and att axla någons mantel (to shoulder someone’s mantle [lit.]) in order to investigate possible conceptual or embodied motivations for their meanings. Using dictionaries and corpora to support all findings, the conceptual nature and intended meaning of each idiom were closely analysed and compared. The investigation shows metaphorical, metonymical and embodied structures which might possibly explain why these two idioms mean the same thing as a whole

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Li, Pik-lan Carmen, and 李碧蘭. "Hong Kong form 6 students' ability in English idiom comprehension in relation to their general English proficiency." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31944656.

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Minugh, David. "Studies in Corpora and Idioms : Getting the cat out of the bag." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-18029.

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“Idiomatic” expressions, usually called “idioms”, such as a dime a dozen, a busman’s holiday, or to have bats in your belfry are a curious part of any language: they usually have a fixed lexical (why a busman?) and structural composition (only dime and dozen in direct conjunction mean ‘common, ordinary’), can be semantically obscure (why bats?), yet are widely recognized in the speech community, in spite of being so rare that only large corpora can provide us with access to sufficient empirical data on their use. In this compilation thesis, four published studies focusing on idioms in corpora

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Ramonda, Kris. "The role of semantic transparency and metaphorical elaboration through pictures for learning idioms in a second language." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6689/.

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Idioms, as multi-word units that contain literal and figurative meanings, are inherently complex and thus unsurprisingly difficult to acquire for second language learners. Though experimental studies on idioms have been carried out with pedagogically minded foci, none have examined the differential effects picture type has on correct interpretation of meaning or meaning recall. Because idioms have both literal and figurative senses, they can be pictorially expressed via either or both of their dual meanings. However, no one has yet tested whether figurative elements in pictures will aid or con

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Omara, Salma. "The comprehension of conversational implicatures : a cross- cultural study." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/862271.

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Research shows that L2 learners' communicative problems are often pragmatic in nature. Pragmatic competence has been defined as the ability to recognize the force and the intended meaning of an utterance by making judgments about its appropriateness (Thomas 1983). Studies on interlanguage pragmatics have provided evidence that conversational strategies differ cross-linguistically and cross-culturally. Also, recent studies on the way native and nonnative speakers of English comprehend and understand conversational implicatures (Bouton 1988, 1989, 1990) have revealed that non-native speakers of

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Colin, Nathalie. "English and Swedish Animal Idioms : A Study of Correspondence and Variation in Content and Expression." Thesis, Karlstad University, Division for Culture and Communication, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-13.

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<p>Idioms are found in every language and learning them is an important aspect of the mastery of a language. The English language is no exception as it contains a large number of idioms, which are extensively used. However, because of their rather rigid structure and quite unpredictable meaning, idioms are often considered difficult to learn. Although little research has been done to date on the nature of idioms as well as how they are used, a better understanding of variations in idioms can nevertheless be acquired by looking at some theories and thoughts about their use and their structure.<

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Zhang, Jia Yun. "Coming alive in context : a case of idiom translation in Camel Xiangzi." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2586618.

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Abdalla, Mohamed Siddig. "The influence of translation on the Arabic language : a study on the translation of English idioms in Arabic satellite TV stations." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.697718.

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Antonsson, Emelie. "Understanding the Meaning of English Idiomatic Expressions in Song Lyrics : A Survey Regarding Swedish University Students’ Understanding of Idiomatic Expressions in English Song Lyrics." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-17887.

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The general field of interest for this study is the Swedish public’s level of awareness of non-literal and figurative language, such as idioms and metaphors, in English. The English language can be considered to be evolving into Sweden’s second language, since it is present in so much more than school, for example, on television, computers and radio. This study aims to gain an insight into the degree of understanding of common idiomatic expressions in popular English song lyrics by native Swedish speakers. University students were chosen as the sample group and twelve of them were asked to exp

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Orava, Anderson Heidi. "Kick the Bucket or Cash in One's Chips : An analysis of some English slang expressions for dying." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-148566.

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This research analyses some of the slang expressions with the meaning ‘to die’ found in Dictionary of Modern Slang with regard to metaphor and metonymy and whether they have been active when creating the identified slang expressions. It further examines the frequency of these expressions in a large language corpus, and identifies the processes involved in the most frequent expressions. The main findings show that the domain ‘departure’ is the most frequent domain for metaphorical conceptualizations of dying, which suggests that death, like life, can be viewed as a journey. One can speculate th

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Li, Pik-lan Carmen. "Hong Kong form 6 students' ability in English idiom comprehension in relation to their general English proficiency." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22198921.

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An, Shi Mo. "In search of the origin of four-character structures with er (而) in literary translation from English into Chinese :a descriptive study of A Passage to India". Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3954314.

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Chen, Yi-Chin. "A corpus-based investigation of collocational errors in EFL Taiwanese high school students' compositions." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2579.

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Many language instructors focus on vocabulary word by word, neglecting common phrases. The result is that English as a Second Language students do not learn to speak idiomatic English (i.e. they make collocation errors). This study of the English compositions of National Tainan Second Senior High School students in Taiwan examined collocation errors, categorizing them according to Benson, Benson and Ilson's Collocation Classification System. An examination was then made of the error types as correlated with general English proficiency.

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Бондарь, Н. Ю., та А. О. Кацюбан. "Основні способи перекладу Фо, що містять назви частин тіла". Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2018. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/67648.

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Метою цього дослідження є вивчення методів перекладу ідіом з англійської мови, що містять назви частин тіла і вибір найкращого варіанту для перекладу таких словосполучень. Англійська мова вважається «ідіоматичною мовою» - вона практично перенасичена стійкими висловами, численними прислів’ями, приказками та афоризмами.

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Halling, Angelica. "This paper sure is a brass ring! : A quantitative study on the effect of context for non-native students’ interpretation of English idioms." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-38225.

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Idioms are a big part of languages but can cause trouble for communication, especially for non-native speakers of a language. Interpreting idioms correctly means that one must derive a figurative meaning from words that individually mean something else. Recent research primarily focuses on the impact of context for successful idiom comprehension and seems to prioritize native speakers’ understanding of them. This study investigates the impact of context for Swedish non-native upper secondary students’ interpretation of English idioms. It further explores if grades and level of education are fa

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Lodén, Anna. "To make a mountain out of a molehill : A comparative study of the metonymical and metaphorical structures of three semantically identical, but lexically different, idioms in English, Swedish and German." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-136839.

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This study revolves around the different underlying metaphorical or metonymical structures of three specific idioms, one English, one Swedish and one German, but with equivalent semantics. The structure of the source and target domains was analysed, as well as the mapping from source to target. The lexical features and the cognitive concepts involved were analysed as well. The method used for this study was an analysis based on cognitive linguistics and conceptual metaphor theory. The result shows a structure of conceptual metaphor within the English and German idioms: making a small entity in

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Lindblom, Hanna. "How crossing one's fingers and holding one's thumbs manages to convey a similar semantic meaning. : The cognitive motivations behind the understanding of three Swedish and English idiom pairs, with different words for body parts." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-136568.

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Three idiom pairs were analysed in order to identify which conceptual motivation, in the form of metaphors, metonymies, embodied motivations and conventional knowledge, were present. Each pair had one Swedish- and one English idiom. They had a similar semantic meaning and they both contained a lexical word for a body part – but not the same body part. The aim was to find out how the idioms could have a similar semantic meaning without having the same structure and the same words. The aim was the research questions were answered by analysing the idiom pairs from a cognitive linguistic perspecti

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Graziani, Elena. "I colori nelle espressioni idiomatiche inglesi ed italiane." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/8853/.

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The purpose of this work is to analyse the figurative and metaphorical meanings of colours in English and Italian, focusing on the analysis and comparison of colour idioms in these two languages and cultures. The study starting point is the assumption that language and culture are inextricably related: they influence and modify each other, and both contribute to shaping our world-view. English and Italian colour idioms will be presented, compared and contrasted. Each colour is introduced by its figurative meaning in the two cultures. It is also shown whether and how the symbolic meaning is

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Сибірцева, Ю. С. "Особливості використання ідіом в художніх текстах (на матеріалі англійської та української мов)". Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/39949.

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Ідіома це фразеологічна одиниця мови, якій характерна стійкість, зміст якої не дорівнює сумі значень складників слів. Дуже вузьке і структурно лімітоване тлумачення ідіоматики призвело до того, що ідіоми досліджувалися більш на рівні словосполучення.

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McKendry, Mairéad. "Investigating the relationship between reading comprehension and semantic skill in children with English as an Additional Language : a focus on idiom comprehension." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:57e1ba53-59b2-45a7-8e8c-7f5de6362dc9.

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The current study builds upon previous UK EAL research by i. sampling EAL children who do not struggle with reading comprehension and ii. investigating participants’ semantic ability at the word, sentence and discourse levels. Four groups of 9-10 year old children were recruited: EAL Average Readers; EL1 Average Readers; EAL Above Average Readers; EL1 Above Average Readers. At the word level, EL1 participants significantly outperformed EAL participants on 2 out of 6 vocabulary measures administered (TOWK Expressive Vocabulary and Multiple Contexts). The results of an idiom comprehension measur

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Sagar, Christine. "Design of an LMS-based English Language Learning Online Network Architecture based on User-Generated Content." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/64781.

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Can adult learners of international English learn the language online? This thesis relates research in the domains of the English language learning paradigm, Second Language Acquisition theories, and online language learning findings to produce a model for an English Language Learning Online Network (ELLON) for usage from within an educational institution. This model is partially designable over Moodle. The main original features of this learning design are the reversal of the knowledge transmission system through learner-generated lessons and learning objects, a model designed towards an expa

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Santos, Marla Soares dos. "Relações de poder : analise do discurso de duas escolas idiomas." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269723.

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Orientador: Carmen Zink Bolonhini<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T07:45:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santos_MarlaSoaresdos_M.pdf: 631233 bytes, checksum: bc89eb18820ec259ce4d671332e686b7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009<br>Resumo: Nosso propósito neste trabalho é analisar e compreender aspectos que se dão no ensino/aprendizagem de LI no espaço das escolas de idiomas e as relações que se dão nesse espaço em uma perspectiva discursiva e, por conseguinte, histórica. Mais especificamente,

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Gullström, Sofia. "Pura Vida : A study on translation of proper nouns, figures of speech and terminology in an English travel guide about Costa Rica." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-26412.

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the difficulties that came up in the translation of an English travel guide about Costa Rica into Swedish, and what strategies may be employed in order to solve them. The focus is on how to handle proper nouns, figures of speech and terminology. In order to gather material for the study an English travel guide about Costa Rica was translated into Swedish and then some of the translation problems encountered during translation were chosen for an in-depth analysis. The analysis is mainly based on Rune Ingo’s and Peter Newmark’s theories, but other

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Schröter, Thorsten. "Shun the Pun, Rescue the Rhyme? : The Dubbing and Subtitling of Language Play in Film." Doctoral thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-704.

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<p>Language-play can briefly be described as the wilful manipulation of the peculiarities of a linguistic system in a way that draws attention to these peculiarities themselves, thereby causing a communicative and cognitive effect that goes beyond the conveyance of propositional meaning. Among the various phenomena answering this description are the different kinds of puns, but also more strictly form-based manipulations such as rhymes and alliteration, in addition to a host of other, sometimes even fuzzier, subcategories.</p><p>Due to its unusual nature, and especially its frequently strong d

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Morrow, William Judson. "¿Qué va a pasar en el Buckeye State? Pasos hacia inglés como idioma oficial /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1211931412.

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Patricio, Cristiane Damazo. "Percepções de alunos egressos de institutos de idiomas sobre seu conhecimento linguístico em exames de Inglês para mestrado e doutorado: um estudo à luz do sistema de avaliatividade." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2015. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=8737.

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O uso da língua materna (LM) faz parte dos exames do conhecimento de uma língua estrangeira (LE) tomados como instrumentos de avaliação em cursos de pós-graduação no Brasil que, em sua maioria, constam de tradução e compreensão leitora de um texto em Inglês. Porém, as abordagens adotadas em cursos de Inglês tendem a deixar a LM de fora do processo de ensino- aprendizagem. Outra questão importante inclui a qualidade e a abrangência da atenção dada à compreensão leitora, embora saiba-se que os cursos de Inglês trabalhem as quatro habilidades (falar, ouvir, ler e escrever) em sala de aula. Diant

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Dungal, Fridur Rún. "The effects of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on students’ comprehension of idiomatic expressions in English as a second language." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-45645.

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In the present investigation, 99 compulsory school students in Sweden were asked to define nine English idioms chosen for their variation in inherent transparency and frequency. The participants were divided into two groups, where Group 2 was provided with context of varying degrees of support, while Group 1 was not. All students answered a biographical questionnaire. Thus, the effects of intrinsic (transparency and frequency) and extrinsic factors (contextual support, extra-curricular activities (ECAs) and age) could be examined. Results show that transparency and frequency do affect idiom co

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Vial, Ana Paula Seixas. "“Um Everest que eu vou ter que atravessar” : formação de professores para o ensino de inglês acadêmico no programa idiomas sem fronteiras." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/172949.

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O Programa Idiomas sem Fronteiras (IsF) promove ações para o ensino e a aprendizagem de idiomas com intuito de fortalecer a internacionalização das universidades e a formação de professores de línguas, pois são os alunos de graduação em Letras Inglês que ministram as aulas. Os Núcleos de Línguas (NucLi) organizam encontros pedagógicos-administrativos semanais, ou seja, momentos formais, ou institucionalizados, para discutir questões burocráticas sobre o Programa, que, acima de tudo, permitam aos professores aprender, indagar e refletir sobre a própria formação. Situada nesse contexto, esta pes

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Bondarenko, D., K. Demenkova, and D. Kozachuk. "English idioms: essence and value." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/49157.

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Feijóo, Antolín Sara. "Learning from the input: syntactic, semantic and phonological cues to the noun category in English." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673498.

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Las líneas centrales de la teoría lingüística de los últimos años han descrito la adquisición y el desarrollo de primeras lenguas como un proceso basado en el conocimiento innato de las propiedades gramaticales de la lengua por parte de los niños aprendices. Tales descripciones del desarrollo sintáctico asumen que el entorno lingüístico al que los niños están expuestos es demasiado limitado como para dar lugar al aprendizaje de una lengua (es decir, el llamado argumento de la pobreza del estímulo). Así pues, según esta visión, es el conocimiento lingüístico innato lo que permite a los niños ll

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Mejía, Obando Katya Alejandra. "Uso de canciones en educación media para la enseñanza del idioma inglés en Tegucigalpa, Honduras." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2016. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/8677.

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Zemtsova, Valeriia. "Semantics of animal idioms in English." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2019. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13192.

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Morrow, William Judson. "¿Qué va a pasar en el Buckeye State? Pasos hacia inglés como idioma oficial." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1211931412.

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Sousa, Laryssa Paulino de Queiroz. "Reflexões sobre educação crítica de língua inglesa: uma pesquisa colaborativa de formação docente em uma escola de idiomas." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7650.

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Martin, Tatiana Gomez. "Histórias contadas e recontadas: o portfólio na reflexão de professores de inglês de cursos de idiomas." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2006. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13786.

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Muriana, Marina Borges. "O percurso da lagarta: tradição e complexidade no ensino de língua inglesa em escolas de idiomas." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21433.

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Nikitkova, Jelena. "Semantics of English and Lithuanian number idioms: contrastive analysis." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130802_134815-91260.

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the characteristic features and meaning of number idioms in the English and Lithuanian languages and determine similarities and differences in symbolic meaning conveyed by numbers in the two cultures. The research has been conducted adopting both quantitative and qualitative approaches, focusing on the main theoretical issues related to idioms and such universal and abstract phenomenon as "number" in the English and Lithuanian idioms, and searching for the relationships between number idioms in the two languages. In order to illustrate the main similari

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Писаренко, Н. М. "Cultural peculiarities of English, German and Ukrainian animal idioms." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2018. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/10566.

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Alexandroni, Daniele. "A construção da identidade de alunos de língua inglesa: suas representações a respeito do idioma e de sua aprendizagem." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2007. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13916.

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Кобякова, Ірина Карпівна, Ирина Карповна Кобякова, Iryna Karpivna Kobiakova, et al. "Numeral polysemy." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/64707.

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The quantitative determination of the world is influenced by the semantics of any language. In the most developed modern languages, including English, the means of expressing ideas of quantity permeate all the levels of language structure, phraseology as well.

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Mawlood, Aween Muhammad Ameen. "Animal idioms in English and Kurdish : with some pedagogical implications." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/42285.

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The primary and foremost objective of this particular study is to know the perspective of the comprehension and teaching of English idioms to Kurdish Learners. The study focuses on two major parts that make idioms difficult to Kurdish learners. Kurdish students encountered many difficulties while learning idioms and the teachers’ lacks of interest in this field have made it more difficult for the students to attain expertise in English idioms. One of the primary and significant problems that the students encountered comprehends the literal meaning. Therefore, teachers teaching English idioms a

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García, Montes Paloma. "Application of Genre and the Harkness Pedagogy for the Advanced Development of Writing Skills in Spanish in Foreign Language Courses." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/171795.

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[ES] La instrucción de género denominada narrativa personal de no ficción o memorias, junto con el método de enseñanza Harkness en la expresión escrita del español como lengua extranjera, demostrará en el contexto particular de una universidad americana en España y en Estados Unidos un desarrollo superior de esta habilidad y desempeño. A la autora de esta tesis le gustaría contribuir a una tan esperada presencia de la escritura del español como L2 en la literatura de investigación. Este estudio trata de desarrollar en las clases de ELE para estudiantes americanos nuevos métodos que logren desp

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McKenna, Jennifer. "Idioms with a viable literal interpretation in German advertisements." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14537.

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An idiom is a set phrase which is relatively syntactically and semantically fixed, and which produces striking stylistic and rhetorical effects. Advertising is a discourse type which is particularly rich in idioms: around half of all the German advertisements examined from Stern magazine and the RTL television channel contain at least one idiom. The idioms tend to occur in prominent, emphatic textual positions, and approximately half of the idioms which appear are modified in some way. The modifications typically produce deliberately creative effects, suggesting that idioms are not as invariab

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