The Perception of Teachers and Students Towards the Benefits and Challenges of Using Idioms and Expressions in Language Acquisition and Pedagogy(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)
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فنون ادبی سال ۱۷ تابستان ۱۴۰۴ شماره ۲ (پیاپی ۵۱)
29 - 36
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This study highlights the role of idioms and expressions in language acquisition and teaching as essential and basic tools for communicating in any language. Learning idioms, and their complexities and simplicity, creates a significant barrier for language learners because it involves interpretation and comprehension, as there are multi-layered meanings attached to cultural dimensions. This study investigated learners’ and teachers’ opinions on the importance of idioms and expressions in enhancing their linguistic competence and language skills, as well as the challenges faced in learning and teaching them. A qualitative approach was employed to dig into the participants’ experiences. To this end, eight teachers and twenty-seven English language learners from a private language institute were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. It was found that learners realized the importance of idioms in their journey toward fluency in the target language culture, though it was a long journey. This gives particular focus on context-enriched learning, dynamic learning, and exploring cultural studies to boost learners’ knowledge and use of idiomatic expressions. It's training meaningful images into a context for which learners construct a linguistic and cultural understanding of how to operate those images across their entire life span. This study suggests that idiomatic language be given due recognition and that processes be developed to adequately render idiomatic language relevant for improved language learning and acquisition.