PPT-Teaching and Learning Idioms: Why and How?

Dilin Liu The University of Alabama Presented at Minghsin University of Science and Technology Nov 12 2015 Definition of Idiom The definition of idiom varies significantly depending on the perspectives of the individual interested in the study of idioms ie it varies from scholar to scholar. Bunkey & Boo. Monkey & Bear. . But first, a word from our . . . Comics!. General Background. What are some cultural idioms in America?. Kick the bucket. Raining cats and dogs. Cut to the chase. Collocations. A collocation (also collocate) is a word or phrase which is frequently used with another word or phrase, in a way that sounds correct to speakers of the language. . Examples of Collocations. . and . Personification. Figurative Language. An expression that means something beyond the literal meaning of the . words. . Oftentime. s it is a cliché (a phrase used over and over again).. You can’t judge a book by its cover. Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics. Dong Fang College. Toriano. Cook. Although English is very similar all around the world, there are some small differences that make very big differences.. on Program . Analysis. Weizmann Institute . of Science. Guy Katz. and David . Harel. Overview. Program analysis: verification, repair, synthesis, . etc. Very desirable, but very difficult. State explosion. Idioms are expressions which have a meaning that is not obvious from the individual words.. The best way to understand an idiom is to see it in context.. Most idioms are fixed in their form and cannot be changed or varied.. The City of Ember. The City of Ember . is a novel about a group of people who have been moved to an underground city to protect mankind from the disaster. The people in Ember do not know they are in a special protected place. Knowledge of the outside world has been kept from them. . A cross-dialectal perspective. Norbert . Corver. , . Jeroen. van . Craenenbroeck. , Will Harwood, . Marko . Hladnik. , Sterre Leufkens, Tanja Temmerman. NWO/FWO Project ‘G.A049.12N’. Grote . Taaldag. EVERYDAY . GERMAN IDIOMS AND EXPRESSIONS. 9. um den . heißen. . Brei. . herumreden. . Literally: to talk around the hot porridge. English Equivalent: to beat around the bush. https://www.theintrepidguide.com/german-idioms-and-expressions/#.WO0BeEX1AdV. IS A PIECE OF CAKE. By John Doliński. The . origin. of . idioms. . . . . . . Idioms. . should. be . used. in . proper. . situations. .. They. . enrich. . our. speech and . increase. . Babak Khoshnevisan. khoshnevisan@mail.usf.edu. . What do we know about idioms?. Research Questions:. What are different models and hypotheses available regarding idiomaticity?. Which hypotheses or models of idiom processing have empirically proved to be applicable for L2 contexts?. To leave _____ alone: not to disturb, to stay away from. I didn’t have a good day, so leave me alone, please.. Hey! Leave that cake alone! It’s for dinner!. Idioms book p. 166. To beat around the bush: to avoid discussing directly; to evade an issue.. The City of Ember . is a novel about a group of people who have been moved to an underground city to protect them from the disaster that may kill all of mankind. The people in Ember do not know they are in a special protected place. Knowledge of the outside world has been kept from them. . Collocation . is a word or phrase which is frequently used with another word or phrase, in a way that sounds correct to speakers of the language. For example, . heavy . rain.. Collocation is essentially a lexical relation and not subject to rules but to tendencies. In Firth’s original insight (1968), collocation is “.