Englisg idioms survey3/12/2024 In this connection, the present study aimed at searching for the thematic index of 1506 idioms under 81 categories at the end of the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms in the largest freely available corpus, i.e. Corpus linguistics can be of much contribution through helping the design and development of more authentic and systematic materials using comprehensive corpora which are typically the best representatives of the target language. However, a more recent approach to better teaching and learning idioms is to present them under categories of their common themes and topics. The traditional approach to presenting idioms relies mainly on teachers’ or materials writers’ judgement, one-by-one and quite incidentally and the existing teaching materials and references for idioms are mostly intuition-based.
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