The Importance of Idiomatic Expressions In Improving Communicative Competence of FEL Learners using Fourth year students of Educational College as a Model
Samir Mohammed Ahmed
College of medicine- Tikrit University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.6.1.23
Keywords: idiomatic expression, interview, performance model, test, vocabulary
Abstract
The study aims to show the importance of idiomatic expressions since they are regarded as significant linguistic units for learners of English as a foreign language (LEF).Idiomatic expressions are expressions each of which consists of two or more words whose meaning differ from the literal meaning of the individual word .These expressions are really a problem for the student majoring in English that they do not understand them .The study also aims at exploring the rule of idiomatic expressions in improving communicative competence and whether these expressions have effective role in improving the student's performance in language. The Study follows the descriptive analytical methods. The tools used for collecting the data are the interview and two tests. The interviews are conducted with university lectures who teach English language .A pre-test and post-test are conducted for the student majoring in English who are students from the department of English . statistical social sciences (SPSS) programme is used for data analysis . The most important result are there is a significant difference between the student's performance in the pre-test and their performance in the post-test. There is a consensus about the necessity of the inclusion of idiomatic expressions in university syllabuses (95.2% of the lecturers).The study recommends that idiomatic expressions should be focused on and included within the syllabuses of universities in Iraq, besides adopting effective methods and techniques in teaching such linguistic elements .
