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A Proverb Learned is a Proverb Earned: Proverb Instruction in EFL Classrooms [PDF]
Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019 This study aims to reveal the situation about proverb instruction in EFL classrooms by seeking future English teachers’ opinions. It is based on the argument that proverbs are an important part of cultural references, figurative, functional and formulaic language; thereby, they lend themselves well to enhancing communicative competence.
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A proverb in need is a proverb indeed: Proverbs, textbooks and communicative language ability [PDF]
South African Journal of Education, 2020 In the study reported here we focus on proverbs in English Language Teaching (ELT) coursebooks and how the pithy structure and the “wisdom”-loaded content of proverbs can contribute to the development of foreign language learners’ communicative competence as defined by Bachman (1990).
Çiler Hatipoğlu, Nilüfer Can Daşkın
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PROVERBS ABOUT PROVERBS. WRITERS' VIEWS ON PROVERBS
, 2023 Since ancient times, proverbs have been considered an inexhaustible source of wisdom. In it, as in a grain, lies all the active forces of democratic culture. And is it not for this reason, as if checking the very direction of their own work with proverbs, all great people revered the wisdom and beauty, the picturesque, inventive power of proverbs ...
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Behavioural Neurology, 1990 Although proverb tests are commonly used in the mental status examination surprisingly little is known about either normal comprehension or the interpretation of proverbial expressions. Current proverbs tests have conceptual and linguistic shortcomings, and few studies have been done to investigate the specific effects of neurological and psychiatric ...
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Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015 AbstractThe article deals with a class of proverbs which express their instructive idea by means of a staged presentation. Such presentation is described in three aspects – structural, semantic and pragmatic. Structurally, dramatization in proverbs is shown in their dialogue form usually including someone's direct speech. Semantically, it is manifested
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Proverbs, Anti-Proverbs and Language Learning
Studies in English Language Teaching, 2017 <p class="Abstract"><em>Proverbs express public wisdom and reflect public attitudes. In the traditional definition they are untouchable when it comes to form. Like other idiomatic expressions, they are learnt as whole, indivisible chunks. As such, they should be included in language classes, if a native-like mastery is to be achieved since ...
Mohammed Khalid Al-Ajlouny +1 more
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