A thematic corpus-based study of idioms in the Corpus of Contemporary American English
Abstract The traditional approach to presenting idioms relies mainly on teachers’ or materials writers’ judgement, one-by-one and quite incidentally; and the existing teaching materials and references for idioms are mostly intuition-based. However, a more recent approach to better teaching and learn...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2019-10-01
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Series: | Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40862-019-0076-4 |