An Empirical Study of Role of Linguistic Contexts in Acquisition of English Idioms by Chinese EFL Learners

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10.2991/mshsd-17.2018.38How to use a DOI?

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English idioms, linguistic context, context theory

Abstract

Many EFL learners can understand the meaning of an individual word, but they often failed to comprehend the whole sentence. On the basis of Nation's theory of context, the researcher conducted idiom tests and questionnaire to the subjects from Lanzhou City University, and found that the correct understanding rate of English idioms without context is lower than 50%, while the correct rate promotes dramatically if the English idioms are offered with context. It confirmed that linguistic context plays a positive role in the understanding of English idioms by Chinese EFL learners, and thus teachers should direct students to pay enough attention to the role contexts play in idiom understanding.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Xingjia Chong
AU  - Yuqing Huang
PY  - 2017/12
DA  - 2017/12
TI  - An Empirical Study of Role of Linguistic Contexts in Acquisition of English Idioms by Chinese EFL Learners
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 World Conference on Management Science and Human Social Development (MSHSD 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 209
EP  - 214
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/mshsd-17.2018.38
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