Stearing Clear: Avoidance in the Production of Idioms  

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Irujo, Suzanne

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching vol. 31 no. 3 (Aug. 1993), page 205-220.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/IRA/31 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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In order to test the assumption that even very advanced speakers of a second language tend to avoid producing idioms, fluent bilinguals who were native speakers of Spanish and had learned English as adults were asked to translate passages containing idioms into everyday conversational English. Some of the idioms had exact equivalents in Spanish and English, some were very similar, and some were totally different. It was hypothesized that 1) subjects would use their knowledge of English to produce many idioms; 2) more idioms that were identical in both languages would be produced; 3) subjects would use more idioms that are frequently heard and semantically transparent, and fewer colloquial idioms. Results support the first two hypotheses but not the third. Discussion of avoidance strategies shows that even when idioms are not used, we cannot speak of avoidance in the same sense in which it is used in the literature on communication strategies. Implications for teaching idioms are discussed.

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