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KILLING MORE THAN TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE: TEACHING TOPICAL VOCABULARY THROUGH IDIOMS

Form of presentation

Articles in international journals and collections

Year of publication

2018

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Authors, employees of KFU

Abdrafikova Albina Rinatovna, author

Pimenova Tatyana Sergeevna, author

Yarmakeev Iskander Engelevich, author

Bibliographic description in the original language

Syunina A.S, Yarmakeev I.E, Pimenova T.S, Killing more than two birds with one stone: Teaching topical vocabulary through idioms//Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences. - 2018. - Vol.13, Is.4. - P.604-612.

Annotation

A great number of researches underlie a big role idioms play in teaching foreign languages. While a great deal of these researches focuses on the positive impact idioms play in the English classroom, there is a need for more empirical research aimed at teaching idiomatic language purposefully [1]. According to the reviewed literature, no study has investigated the use of idioms, in the classroom and/ or over an entire course, to explicitly teach topical vocabulary. A tentative assumption that learning vocabulary in context is easier and more efficient, which was based on the evidence from the classroom, became a starting point for this study. The leading research method was a three-stage experiment. To successfully conduct the experiment, there were compiled a list of an active vocabulary and a list of English idioms that contain this vocabulary. All these were to meet the syllabus topics. Sixty two school students were observed in this experiment. The obtained results were positive, indicating the fact that teaching vocabulary in idiomatic expressions turned out to be more appealing to learners and more effective than “teaching laundry lists of vocabulary alone” [2: 18]. The paper discusses issues and practices of teaching topical vocabulary in EFL class and offers general recommendations for foreign language instructors.

Keywords

EFL class, experiment, learning vocabulary in context, syllabus topics, teaching vocabulary through idioms, topical vocabulary

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Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences

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Field DC	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Abdrafikova Albina Rinatovna	ru_RU
dc.contributor.author	Pimenova Tatyana Sergeevna	ru_RU
dc.contributor.author	Yarmakeev Iskander Engelevich	ru_RU
dc.date.accessioned	2018-01-01T00:00:00Z	ru_RU
dc.date.available	2018-01-01T00:00:00Z	ru_RU
dc.date.issued	2018	ru_RU
dc.identifier.citation	Syunina A.S, Yarmakeev I.E, Pimenova T.S, Killing more than two birds with one stone: Teaching topical vocabulary through idioms//Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences. - 2018. - Vol.13, Is.4. - P.604-612.	ru_RU
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.kpfu.ru/eng/?p_id=198546&p_lang=2	ru_RU
dc.description.abstract	Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences	ru_RU
dc.description.abstract	A great number of researches underlie a big role idioms play in teaching foreign languages. While a great deal of these researches focuses on the positive impact idioms play in the English classroom, there is a need for more empirical research aimed at teaching idiomatic language purposefully [1]. According to the reviewed literature, no study has investigated the use of idioms, in the classroom and/ or over an entire course, to explicitly teach topical vocabulary. A tentative assumption that learning vocabulary in context is easier and more efficient, which was based on the evidence from the classroom, became a starting point for this study. The leading research method was a three-stage experiment. To successfully conduct the experiment, there were compiled a list of an active vocabulary and a list of English idioms that contain this vocabulary. All these were to meet the syllabus topics. Sixty two school students were observed in this experiment. The obtained results were positive, indicating the fact that teaching vocabulary in idiomatic expressions turned out to be more appealing to learners and more effective than “teaching laundry lists of vocabulary alone” [2: 18]. The paper discusses issues and practices of teaching topical vocabulary in EFL class and offers general recommendations for foreign language instructors.	ru_RU
dc.language.iso	ru	ru_RU
dc.subject	EFL class	ru_RU
dc.subject	experiment	ru_RU
dc.subject	learning vocabulary in context	ru_RU
dc.subject	syllabus topics	ru_RU
dc.subject	teaching vocabulary through idioms	ru_RU
dc.subject	topical vocabulary	ru_RU
dc.title	Killing more than two birds with one stone: Teaching topical vocabulary through idioms	ru_RU
dc.type	Articles in international journals and collections	ru_RU