EFFECTIVE WAYS OF TEACHING ENGLISH IDIOMS TO EFL LEARNERS

Abstract

Introduction
Idioms are an indispensable dimension of language teaching; they are the ‘street shoes’ and
the ‘house slippers’ of conversational English. Idioms must be added to the vocabulary stock
just as any other new vocabulary; their constituent words may look familiar, but their
meanings are, well, idiomatic.
They are generally more durable and universal within a language than jargon, slang
or colloquialisms, but nevertheless they are sensitive to questions of register and social
situation. In addition, the line between slang and idioms is not rigid.