On Improvement of Undergraduates’ Phraseological Competence Through U-learning: Exemplified by Use of English Idioms
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Words or phrases are important to English learners, and an idiom is a group of words. This paper first analyzes idioms’ classifications and features, then it tries to illustrate how to grasp idioms’ meanings in different context, and how to apply them to undergraduates’ English class, improving the students’ phraseological competence.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/11609
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