چکیده:
Due to the importance of idioms, many researchers and teachers have long sought to find ways of making idiom teaching and learning more effective. This study compared three visual mnemonic devices (pictures, mental imagery, and movie clips) in terms of their effect on EFL learners’ recognition and recall of English idioms. Ninety intermediate level EFL learners who were preparing themselves for IELTS participated in this study. They were in three groups of thirty members each. Each group was taught idioms using one of the afore-mentioned visual mnemonic devices. Receptive and productive tests of idioms were administered to all groups after the treatment. The one-way ANOVA procedure was used to analyze the collected data. The results revealed statistically significant differences among these devices, with pictures method being the most effective on both recognition and recall of idioms. The findings of the study can have significant theoretical as well as pedagogical implications for language researchers, textbook designers, curriculum developers, teachers, and language learners.
خلاصه ماشینی:
This study compared three visual mnemonic devices (pictures, mental imagery, and movie clips) in terms of their effect on EFL learners’ recognition and recall of English idioms.
Moreover, idioms and idiomatic expressions play an indisputable role in building fluency (Cain, Towse, & Knight, 2009; Lim, Ang, Lee, & Leong, 2009), and can embellish languages with a natural sense (Hinkel, 2017).
Nonetheless, there is still a need for empirical research comparing different visual mnemonic devices (pictures, mental imagery, and movie clips) affecting idioms learning.
Which visual mnemonic techniques (pictures, mental imagery, and movie clips) are more effective on EFL learners’ recognition of English idioms?
2. Which visual mnemonic techniques (pictures, mental imagery, and movie clips) are more effective on EFL learners’ recall of English idioms?
Several studies have already explored the impact of pictures on learning vocabulary and idioms (Barcroft & Sunderman 2008; Boers, Piquer-Piriz, Stengers & Eyckmans, 2009; Farley, Ramonda, & Liu, 2014; Hagiwara, 2015).
Nevertheless, few studies, if any, have compared the effect of the three visual mnemonic devices (pictures, movie clips, and mental imagery) on the recognition and recall of English idioms.
2. Research Question Two The second question addressed the effects of pictures, movie clips and mental imagery on idioms recall.
2. Discussion The findings of this study revealed the significantly differential effects of pictures, mental imagery, and movie clips on both recognition and recall of English idioms.
The effect of visual images and imagery on immediate and delayed recall of idioms by English language learners.