The Effectiveness of Teaching Idioms in Electoral Speeches

Abstract

There has been a considerable amount of interest in the study of idioms. English is a language with a vast idiomatic basis, which makes its learning very exciting and intriguing. Idioms, constitute a notoriously difficult area of foreign language learning and teaching. The sheer number of idioms and their high frequency in discourse make idioms an important aspect of vocabulary acquisition and language learning in general. Nowadays language learning is based on the need for interaction with others. This research aims to respond to a need for a proper method of teaching election idioms to High School students. From the growing body of this research, it follows that applying cooperative techniques for teaching election idioms, can improve learning outcomes and can also effectively improve language communication. The results of the pre-test and pro-test show that the cooperative method of teaching election idioms turned out to be more effective than the competitive method in both idioms comprehension and production.