Original scientific paper
PROBLEMS WITH RECOGNIZING EQUIVALENCE BETWEEN ENGLISH AND CROATIAN IDIOMS AMONG CROATIAN EFL LEARNERS
Lidija Mustapić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0323-4887
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mostar
Abstract
The aim of this study is to identify the problems learners of English who
are native speakers of Croatian face when trying to recognize the equivalence
between English and Croatian idioms. The subjects were ninety
English language majors at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the
University of Mostar. Based on the subjects’ translations of English idioms
into Croatian and Croatian idioms into English, the study explores the
issues of transfer and the role of context in learning English idioms. The
implications of the research for teaching English idioms to native speakers
of Croatian are also discussed.
Keywords
idiom; equivalence; interference; positive transfer; context
Hrčak ID:
229716
URI
Publication date:
7.12.2011.
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