台湾EFL学生英语惯用语之辨认与理解.PDFVIP

台灣 EFL 學生英語慣用語之辨認與理解 English Idiom Identification and Comprehension Strategy Usage by Taiwanese EFL Learners by 高加州 Aaron Valdis Gauss THESIS Presented to the Faculty of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of Tunghai University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS in Teaching English As A Foreign Language TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY November 2012 中 華 民 國 一百零一年 十一 月 i    English Idiom Identification and Comprehension Strategy Usage by Taiwanese EFL Learners Abstract A very limited number of international studies have investigated idiom comprehension strategies of L2 English learners employed in understanding idioms, of varying degrees of structural congruency, in different contexts. However, even the most noteworthy of those studies failed to provide equally rich contextual environments for each idiom. Moreover, their instruments neglected to differentiate between semantically incongruent (language specific) and semantically congruent (translatable) idiomatic language. The present study investigates the strategies that 20 Taiwanese EFL high proficiency learners with English related majors utilized when reading unknown idiomatic semantically incongruent language in four equally rich contextual environments. Specifically, the c