A Comparative Analysis for Teaching Idioms: Intuition, COCA, and a Book

• 영문명: A Comparative Analysis for Teaching Idioms: Intuition, COCA, and a Book
• 발행기관: 한국영어교과교육학회
• 저자명: Sohee Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『영어교과교육』영어교과교육 15권 2호, 31~48쪽, 전체 18쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2016.05.31

영문 초록

This article reports comparative results of native English speaking teachers’ intuition, an idiom book, and online corpora analysis for idioms. In order to investigate their differences, the intuition of 30 native English teachers was examined in terms of frequency, collocations, and registers for five idioms from the idiom book, Against All Odds, in comparison to the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). In addition, the idiom book’s information on definitions and phraseology with the same five idioms was compared with COCA analysis to see whether the idiom textbook can sufficiently provide linguistic information. This study found that although teachers’ intuition showed collocations were better in providing specific contexts to convey meaning than COCA examples, COCA analysis shows valid results for frequency and registers. Thus, both COCA and teachers’ intuition may need to complement one another. It also indicated that the idiom book does not have enough information about definitions and phraseology; thus it needs to provide more detailed examples within the usage contexts. Based on these findings, this research provides English teachers and idiom book authors with useful insights for effective English idiom teaching using online corpora.

목차

Abstract

I. INTRODUCTION

II. LITERATURE REVIEW

III. METHOD

IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

V. CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS

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키워드

teachers’intuition online corpora idiom textbook collocate frequency 교사의 직관 온라인 코포라 이디엄 책 연어 빈도수