رسالة ماجستير في اللغة الإنجليزية Arab EFL learners in guessing the meaning of idioms

هذه رسالة ماجستير في اللغة الإنجليزية بعنوان
Arab EFL learners in guessing the meaning of idoms: Efficiency and Techniques
المؤلف:
حيدر عبد الوهاب الحسن
Haider Al-Hassan

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Abstract
The current study provides some insights into the hypothesis of
incidental vocabulary learning (i.e., learning vocabulary as a
by-product of reading or listening). The study is motivated by the
question of how feasible it is for EFL learners to comprehend
unfamiliar multiword units, idioms in the case of this study, by means
of guessing from con, lexical inferencing, during the reading of
authentic s (i.e., the s written for the speakers of a particular , not
especially written for the non-native speakers or the learners of that
).
Using qualitative and quantitative methods, the current study
seeks to: (a) provide a tentative assessment of the efficiency with
which a sample of Arab EFL-majoring students guess at the meaning of
idioms (e.g., to talk shop, red tape, hard on some's heel and by the
skin of some's teeth), (b) identify the techniques that the sample
learners use while guessing, and (c) assess the effectiveness of such
techniques.
The subjects read a sample of short authentic s that were retrieved
from different sites. Moreover, the subjects were asked to: (a) report
whether or not they were familiar with the sample idioms, (b) provide
the meaning of these idioms in writing, and (c) report on how they
attempted to guess the meaning of the unfamiliar idioms.
On one hand, the subjects were unable to come up with correct guesses
in nearly half the number of the items that contained unfamiliar
idioms; on the other hand, the subjects provided correct or partially
correct guesses in the rest of the items. The subjects used a wide
range of techniques that involved one or more of the following: idiom
constituents, sentences (or phrases), the subjects' own mental images
of idioms, phor, the whole , the topics of the sample s, subjects' L1,
con, paragraphs, keywords and even wild guessing. In general, none of
the techniques was more effective than the other was for guessing the
meaning of the idioms.
In light of the findings, guessing from con during the reading of
authentic s can be one of the major sources of learning the meaning of
idioms; yet, on its own, it does not seem to be enough for an optimal
knowledge of the meaning of idioms.

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