{"title":"The Effect of Explicit Teaching of Idioms on Strategy Choice for EFL Learners in a Reading Comprehension Test","authors":"Yasin Khoshhal, Jaleh Hassasskhah","doi":"10.30827/digibug.45028","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"espanolLa investigacion muestra que los estudiantes tienden a escoger su estrategia preferida al pedirles que encuentren el significado de modismos en un texto. Este estudio investiga la eleccion de estrategias preferidas por parte de estudiantes de ingles para encontrar la definicion correcta de estas expresiones. A treinta y tres estudiantes de ingles se les proporciono un texto escrito que consistia en veinte modismos y se examino la estrategia elegida para encontrar la definicion correcta de cada frase. Los participantes se dividieron en dos grupos. Al grupo experimental (con diecisiete estudiantes) se le ensenaron modismos de forma explicita durante el curso. El grupo control (con dieciseis estudiantes) no recibio instruccion explicita de las expresiones. Los resultados muestran que de las estrategias proporcionadas, el grupo que recibio instruccion explicita eligio “usar el diccionario” mas a menudo mientras el otro grupo preferia “preguntar al profesor”. Como observaron Rodriguez y Winnberg (2013), los estudiantes prueban diferentes estrategias y tecnicas cuando encuentran un problema y como profesores es importante tener en cuenta que cada estudiante tiene un estilo particular de aprendizaje. Este estudio sugiere que la ensenanza explicita de modismos se debe combinar con el aprendizaje implicito en contextos de aprendizaje de ingles como lengua extranjera. Ademas, los estudiantes necesitan mas contacto (explicito o implicito) con el significado y uso de modismos para dominar esta complicada area de aprendizaje. EnglishResearch has shown that students tend to choose their preferred strategy when they are asked to find the meaning of idiomatic phrases in a text. This study investigates how English learners choose their preferred strategies to find the correct definition of idiomatic phrases. Thirty-three learners of English were given a reading passage which consisted of twenty idiomatic expressions, and their strategy choice in finding the correct definition of each phrase was examined. The participants were divided into two groups. The experimental group (with seventeen students) was taught idioms explicitly during the course and the control group (with sixteen students) did not receive any explicit instruction in learning idioms. The results showed that among the given strategies, the group which was taught explicitly tended to choose “using dictionary” more often whereas the other group preferred to “ask the teacher”. As Rodriguez and Winnberg (2013) observed, learners try different strategies and techniques when they encounter a problem and as teachers it is important to notice that every student has a particular way of learning. This study suggests that teaching idioms explicitly should be combined with implicit learning in EFL contexts. Furthermore, learners need more exposure (explicit or implicit) to the meaning and usage of idiomatic phrases in order to master this complex field of learning.","PeriodicalId":41764,"journal":{"name":"ReiDoCrea-Revista Eectronica de Investigacion y Docencia Creativa","volume":"6 1","pages":"84-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ReiDoCrea-Revista Eectronica de Investigacion y Docencia Creativa","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.30827/digibug.45028","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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espanolLa investigacion muestra que los estudiantes tienden a escoger su estrategia preferida al pedirles que encuentren el significado de modismos en un texto. Este estudio investiga la eleccion de estrategias preferidas por parte de estudiantes de ingles para encontrar la definicion correcta de estas expresiones. A treinta y tres estudiantes de ingles se les proporciono un texto escrito que consistia en veinte modismos y se examino la estrategia elegida para encontrar la definicion correcta de cada frase. Los participantes se dividieron en dos grupos. Al grupo experimental (con diecisiete estudiantes) se le ensenaron modismos de forma explicita durante el curso. El grupo control (con dieciseis estudiantes) no recibio instruccion explicita de las expresiones. Los resultados muestran que de las estrategias proporcionadas, el grupo que recibio instruccion explicita eligio “usar el diccionario” mas a menudo mientras el otro grupo preferia “preguntar al profesor”. Como observaron Rodriguez y Winnberg (2013), los estudiantes prueban diferentes estrategias y tecnicas cuando encuentran un problema y como profesores es importante tener en cuenta que cada estudiante tiene un estilo particular de aprendizaje. Este estudio sugiere que la ensenanza explicita de modismos se debe combinar con el aprendizaje implicito en contextos de aprendizaje de ingles como lengua extranjera. Ademas, los estudiantes necesitan mas contacto (explicito o implicito) con el significado y uso de modismos para dominar esta complicada area de aprendizaje. EnglishResearch has shown that students tend to choose their preferred strategy when they are asked to find the meaning of idiomatic phrases in a text. This study investigates how English learners choose their preferred strategies to find the correct definition of idiomatic phrases. Thirty-three learners of English were given a reading passage which consisted of twenty idiomatic expressions, and their strategy choice in finding the correct definition of each phrase was examined. The participants were divided into two groups. The experimental group (with seventeen students) was taught idioms explicitly during the course and the control group (with sixteen students) did not receive any explicit instruction in learning idioms. The results showed that among the given strategies, the group which was taught explicitly tended to choose “using dictionary” more often whereas the other group preferred to “ask the teacher”. As Rodriguez and Winnberg (2013) observed, learners try different strategies and techniques when they encounter a problem and as teachers it is important to notice that every student has a particular way of learning. This study suggests that teaching idioms explicitly should be combined with implicit learning in EFL contexts. Furthermore, learners need more exposure (explicit or implicit) to the meaning and usage of idiomatic phrases in order to master this complex field of learning.