The Role of Teaching Idiomatic Expressions in Developing Basic Level Pupils’ Linguistic Competence

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the perspective of EFL teachers on idioms in language teaching and learning. It looks into three major points that make idioms such an obstacle to the English learners, these three points are: A) the difficulties of idioms including comprehension and usage. B) Language connection with the culture. C) Methods of teaching idioms. The purpose of this study is to prove how the idiomatic expressions are instrumental in consolidating the basic level pupils’ linguistic competence. The data of the study has been collected by using written interview (survey). The survey consists of eight open ended questions. The questions asked the participants to write about their own perspective of teaching English idiomatic expressions and the role of them in teaching EFL. It has been uses the statistical package for social science (SPSS) to analyse the data and show the results that the researcher has obtained from the written interview. The results of this studies revealed that idioms are very important and they play an important role in language teaching and learning, idioms are an important aspect of language that should not be skipped from language curricula, there is a strong relationship between the idioms and culture and the culture plays a big role in understanding idioms and finally The way of teaching idioms affects the learners’ understanding.