The Advantages and Importance of Learning and Using Idioms in English

This article has as main purpose to share the results of a small scale project based on guiding students in the use of idioms through dialogues and readings, in order to improve students' communicative skill. The project was applied at Universidad Santo Tomás - Tunja, with one group of eleven E...

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Autor principal:	ELIANA EDITH ROBERTO DE CARO
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN ES FR
Publicado:	Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2009
Materias:	idioms dialogues communicative skill Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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description	This article has as main purpose to share the results of a small scale project based on guiding students in the use of idioms through dialogues and readings, in order to improve students' communicative skill. The project was applied at Universidad Santo Tomás - Tunja, with one group of eleven Electronic Engineering students who attend to an undergraduate education program. Dialogues, interviews, and informal speech or conversations were used to collect the data in this action research study. Findings demonstrated that by learning and using some idioms the learners were able to increase their knowledge about idioms, they learned new vocabulary, and improved their communicative skill.
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The Advantages and Importance of Learning and Using Idioms in English

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