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Dastjerdi, Hossein Vahid; A'lipour, Javad – English Language Teaching, 2010
A great deal of attention has been paid to the role of idiomatic language in learning a second language. It has been recently recognized by some second language researchers (e.g. Danesi, 2003) that second language speakers may sound unnatural if their speech is devoid of idiomatic language. This article is an attempt to see how the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns, Language Acquisition