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Idiom Errors Made by Iraqi EFL Learners at University Level | ||
| Journal of Tikrit University for the Humanities | ||
| Article 1, Volume 18, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 406-428 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Abid Hmood Ali; | ||
| Abstract | ||
| ABSTRACT The increased interest of research on errors made by learners of foreign languages has attracted the attention of linguists and educators in language teaching and learning. This research is an attempt to investigate the errors made by Iraqi EFL learners in idioms. It is also an attempt to offer some insight into the nature of idioms from a linguistic viewpoint. A test composed of (20) items of multiple choice covering various areas of idiomatic expressions has been administered to (60) of the fourth year students in the Department of English, College of Education, University of Tikrit to examine their achievement in idioms. The correct answers are (484) representing (40.33%) of the total number of answers. It has been shown by the low rate of answers that there is a shortage in the students' mastery of English lexicon. This unsatisfactory achievement of students can be attributed to their dependency on deducing the meanings of idioms by combining meanings of the constituent words, the very little attention paid to teaching idioms during the years of study at the college, lack of specialized dictionaries and books and the cultural differences between Arabic and English as well. Based on the conclusions, the study provides some recommendations related to teaching idioms. | ||
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