The idiomatic competence of Jordanian EFL undergraduate students : a contrastive pedagogical study
Other Title(s)
القدرة التعبيرية الاصطلاحية لطلبة اللغة الإنجليزية الجامعيين الأردنيين : دراسة تقابلية تربوية
Joint Authors
al-Shajarawi, Fuad A.
Smadi, Uqlah M.
Source
IUG Journal of Educational and Psychology Sciences
Issue
Vol. 27, Issue 4 (31 Jul. 2019), pp.1-19, 19 p.
Publisher
The Islamic University-Gaza Deanship of Research and Graduate Affairs
Publication Date
2019-07-31
Country of Publication
Palestine (Gaza Strip)
No. of Pages
19
Main Subjects
Educational Sciences
Languages & Comparative Literature
Topics
- Universities
- Higher education
- Teaching methods
- Students
- Teaching
- Jordan
- Twenty-first century
- Languages
- English language
- Rhetoric
- Written expression
Abstract EN
The present study aimed at investigating the idiomatic competence in English and Arabic that the Jordanian EFL undergraduate students possess.
To achieve this, the researcher conducted a Completion-Discourse Test (DCT) on 125 students majoring Applied English in the Department of English in the University of Jordan during the academic year (2017-2018).
The findings revealed that the Jordanian EFL undergraduate students have a lowintermediate competence in understanding the idioms in both languages and in using the Arabic idioms.
They, however, showed low level in the use of English idioms.
Moreover, the factors of transparency, equivalence, high exposure to English, the common use of some expressions and contextualization were found to have a role in facilitating the students' idiom understanding.
Nevertheless, studying the idioms included in the textbooks did not show a better idiomatic competence than those who did not, The negative transfer had a great impact on distracting students and The students had insufficient knowledge of the English pragmatics and semantics
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Shajarawi, Fuad A.& Smadi, Uqlah M.. 2019. The idiomatic competence of Jordanian EFL undergraduate students : a contrastive pedagogical study. IUG Journal of Educational and Psychology Sciences،Vol. 27, no. 4, pp.1-19.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-893241
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Shajarawi, Fuad A.& Smadi, Uqlah M.. The idiomatic competence of Jordanian EFL undergraduate students : a contrastive pedagogical study. IUG Journal of Educational and Psychology Sciences Vol. 27, no. 4 (Jul. 2019), pp.1-19.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-893241
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Shajarawi, Fuad A.& Smadi, Uqlah M.. The idiomatic competence of Jordanian EFL undergraduate students : a contrastive pedagogical study. IUG Journal of Educational and Psychology Sciences. 2019. Vol. 27, no. 4, pp.1-19.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-893241
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 18
Record ID
BIM-893241