Learn essential English idioms and phrases that native speakers use daily. Enhance your conversational English and speak more ...

For English language learners, mastering idioms is vital for academic and professional success. Proficiency exams like IELTS and TOEFL assess idiom comprehension, recognising it as a sign of ...

A mastery of idioms is often equated with native speaker fluency (Fernando, 1996; Schmitt, 2000; Wray, 2000), but it is difficult for language teachers and material writers to make principled ...

The study reported in this article investigated whether second language learners use knowledge of their first language to comprehend and produce idioms in the second language. Subjects were 12 ...