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Four-mode idiom instruction package (movie clips, sentence-use, PowerPoint definitions, role-play)

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Description

The study’s treatment consisted of four ways of presenting the same 100 idioms over eight one-hour sessions, with 10 to 12 idioms taught per session per group. The Movie Group watched short clips from Everyday English Idioms on YouTube and guessed meanings; the Sentence-use Group wrote sentences with corrective feedback; the Definitions Group worked through 100 PowerPoint slides showing each idiom and its definition; the Role-play Group practiced and performed short conversational stories containing the idioms. All groups received the L1 (Persian) equivalent of each idiom.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • The same idioms must be taught through each tool to keep conditions comparable; teaching/learning time was kept the same across groups.

Constraints

  • Participants were 47 volunteers aged 15–22 from two language institutes, homogeneously upper-intermediate/advanced, all sharing Azeri L1 and Persian L2.

Target Learners

  • upper-intermediate/advanced adolescent and young-adult EFL learners

Learning Goals

  • idiomatic competence (comprehension and use of English idioms)

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Zainab Abolfazli Khonbi & Karim Sadeghi. (2017). Improving English Language Learners’ Idiomatic Competence: Does Mode of Teaching Play a Role? Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research 5(3), 61-79. http://ijltr.urmia.ac.ir
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title Four-mode idiom instruction package (movie clips, sentence-use, PowerPoint definitions, role-play)
description The study’s treatment consisted of four ways of presenting the same 100 idioms over eight one-hour sessions, with 10 to 12 idioms taught per session per group.
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