The Effect of etymology elaboration on EFL learners’ comprehension and retention of idioms

This article reports on a study that investigated the impact of etymological elaboration on EFL students’ comprehension and retention of English idioms. The participants for the study were 32 Iranian upper- intermediate EFL students. They were members of two intact classes randomly assigned to an ex...

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Main Authors:	Baleghizadeh, Sasan, Bagheri, Mehri Mohammad
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Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2012
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spelling	ukm-40612016-12-14T06:35:29Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4061/ The Effect of etymology elaboration on EFL learners’ comprehension and retention of idioms Baleghizadeh, Sasan Bagheri, Mehri Mohammad This article reports on a study that investigated the impact of etymological elaboration on EFL students’ comprehension and retention of English idioms. The participants for the study were 32 Iranian upper- intermediate EFL students. They were members of two intact classes randomly assigned to an experimental and a comparison group. The treatment lasted for six two-hour sessions, during each session of which the participants in both groups received five idioms which they were supposed to define. The participants in the experimental group received the idioms along with the pertinent etymological elaborations, while the participants in the comparison group received the same idioms without etymological elaborations. The results revealed that etymological elaboration has a positive effect on EFL students’ comprehension and subsequent retention of idioms. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4061/1/5-Sasan%2520Baleghizadeh%2520et%2520al.pdf Baleghizadeh, Sasan and Bagheri, Mehri Mohammad (2012) The Effect of etymology elaboration on EFL learners’ comprehension and retention of idioms. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 18 (1). pp. 23-32. ISSN 0128-5157 http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/3L/3LHome.html
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description	This article reports on a study that investigated the impact of etymological elaboration on EFL students’ comprehension and retention of English idioms. The participants for the study were 32 Iranian upper- intermediate EFL students. They were members of two intact classes randomly assigned to an experimental and a comparison group. The treatment lasted for six two-hour sessions, during each session of which the participants in both groups received five idioms which they were supposed to define. The participants in the experimental group received the idioms along with the pertinent etymological elaborations, while the participants in the comparison group received the same idioms without etymological elaborations. The results revealed that etymological elaboration has a positive effect on EFL students’ comprehension and subsequent retention of idioms.
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author	Baleghizadeh, Sasan Bagheri, Mehri Mohammad
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author_facet	Baleghizadeh, Sasan Bagheri, Mehri Mohammad
author_sort	Baleghizadeh, Sasan
title	The Effect of etymology elaboration on EFL learners’ comprehension and retention of idioms
title_short	The Effect of etymology elaboration on EFL learners’ comprehension and retention of idioms
title_full	The Effect of etymology elaboration on EFL learners’ comprehension and retention of idioms
title_fullStr	The Effect of etymology elaboration on EFL learners’ comprehension and retention of idioms
title_full_unstemmed	The Effect of etymology elaboration on EFL learners’ comprehension and retention of idioms
title_sort	effect of etymology elaboration on efl learners’ comprehension and retention of idioms
publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate	2012
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4061/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4061/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4061/1/5-Sasan%2520Baleghizadeh%2520et%2520al.pdf
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The Effect of etymology elaboration on EFL learners’ comprehension and retention of idioms

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