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Publication details [#49927]

Boers, Frank, June Eyckmans and Helene Stengers. 2007. Presenting figurative idioms with a touch of etymology: more than mere mnemonics? Language Teaching Research 11 (1) : 43–62.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

figurative meaning | foreign language acquisition | idiom | understanding

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This study demonstrates that knowledge of idiom origin can efficiently help English as a foreign language learners to understand idioms' figurative meaning.