Chinese idioms : stepping into L2 student’s shoes

Petrovčič, Mateja (author)

Idiomatic expressions play an important role in communication. They are widely used in both spoken and written discourse and are often one of the indicatorsof native-like proficiency.This paper discussesChinese idioms chengyu in foreign language education, presentssome observations regarding the scope of idioms predictedfor the advanced level of Chinese, and introduces conceptual gaps between L1 and L2 as possible reasons for learners’ mistakenusages. This study argues thatequipping students with skills and knowledge needed forreachingcontextually appropriate useof idioms should be the main goal in the teaching/learning process and provides a set of practical suggestions as to which aspects of teaching idiomsshould be consideredthoroughly.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Chinese idioms, foreign language education, teaching and learning strategies, text corpora, language transfer
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 37-58
• Numbering: Vol. 12, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-134817
• UDC: 811.581\'373.72:37
• ISSN on article: 2232-3317
• DOI: 10.4312/ala.12.1.37–58
• COBISS.SI-ID: 96169987
• Publication date in RUL: 03.02.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Acta linguistica asiatica
• Publisher: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2232-3317
• COBISS.SI-ID: 255902464

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.
• Licensing start date: 30.01.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: kitajski pregovori, poučevanje tujih jezikov, strategije učenja in poučevanja, besedilni korpusi, jezikovni prenos

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P6-0243
• Name: Azijski jeziki in kulture
• Acronym: AJK