Teaching English Idioms to Chinese EFL Learners: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective

Autor/in	Guo, Yi
Titel	Teaching English Idioms to Chinese EFL Learners: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 12 (2019) 5, S.145-155 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Chinese; Figurative Language; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Psycholinguistics; Teaching Methods; Instructional Effectiveness; Learning Strategies; Native Language; College Students; Foreign Countries; Classification; Pretests Posttests; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? China; Chinesen; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Psycholinguistik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Unterrichtserfolg; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Collegestudent; Ausland; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem
Abstract	Learning idioms has always been difficult for L2 learners of English. Drawing on a cognitive linguistic perspective of idiom learning, this paper reports on an empirical study that investigated the effects of incorporating the knowledge of conceptual metaphor and metonymy in L2 classroom instruction of English idioms. The study confirmed the efficacy of applying the conceptual metaphor- and metonymy-based ways of teaching to Chinese college-level EFL learners. It further revealed the different degrees of teaching effect towards different types of metaphoric idioms. While no significant progress was made in learning orientationally and ontologically metaphoric idioms, students benefited more from the conceptual metaphor-based method in learning structurally metaphoric idioms. These findings serve to enrich L2 idiom pedagogy and provide EFL learners with strategies other than "rote memorization" in the process of idiom learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01