A Teaching Experiment of Chinese College Students’ English Idioms Comprehension

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  • Hui Chen
  • Xianze Wu

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https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v12i06.7096

Abstract


An English idiom is a special combination of words, the meaning of which is not the simple addition of its constituents but a special meaning. English idioms are widely used by English native speakers, which are very important for English as a second language learners. Chinese learners are poor in English idioms comprehension, and they need to adopt a new method for improving their English idioms comprehension. S-S-P-C model means analyzing an English idiom from syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and cultural perspective, which was applied in a teaching experiment among college students for one semester. The teaching experiment shows that S-S-P-C model is an efficient method for Chinese learners to help improve their English idioms comprehension.

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Published

2017-06-27

How to Cite

Chen, H., & Wu, X. (2017). A Teaching Experiment of Chinese College Students’ English Idioms Comprehension. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 12(06), pp. 22–30. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v12i06.7096

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