An Integrated Approach To Idiomatic Expressions Teaching: The Case Of The Literature Classroom

Résumé: It has been recognised that culture is one of the prominent skills to teach a language, especially a second or foreign language. Next to the traditional basic four skills; reading, writing, speaking, and listening; culture awareness enhances the students’ language proficiency and provides them with a native-like atmosphere in EFL classroom. One commonly neglected feature of acquiring native-like knowledge of the language has been idiomatic expression mastery. In literature classroom, the experience is worse. Although a part of the figurative and stylistic aesthetics of literary texts, idioms are rarely dealt with. This study, hence, aims at suggesting an integrated approach, following Oxford (2001) model of integrated skills, to teach idioms within the literary classroom. The approach targets both lexical and cultural mastery of the foreign language. It provides teachers with a list of activities which foster language communication in and outside the classroom.

Publié dans la revue: Revue internationale de Traduction Moderne