Cat Got Your Tongue?: Teaching Idioms to English Learners - Softcover

McPherron, Paul; Randolph, Patrick T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1942223226 ISBN 13: 9781942223221

Publisher: TESOL Press, 2014

Synopsis

Why do questions about idioms often leave us tongue-tied in our classrooms? McPherron and Randolph, both English language teachers, were motivated from their own experiences to find answers to this question, and, in Cat Got Your Tongue?, they offer effective ways to address idioms, collocations, multiword phrases, and other types of formulaic language in the classroom.

The authors clearly and accessibly present a survey of recent research along with their own original research, all of which enlivens the pedagogy of teaching and learning idioms for all scholars, teachers, and students of the English language. They never stray from the practical needs of the classroom, skillfully relaying the research into numerous examples of actual classroom application. In addition to these ready-to-use lesson plans, readers are treated to a critique of the vast array of the best and most useful idiom textbooks, websites, and other resource materials.

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Review:

This insightful, brilliant, yet highly practical book is rare among the many that claim to assist teachers to teach and learners to learn not just communication, grammar, and the literal lexicon, but many aspects of the cultural residue of English, and specifically here the approximately 10,000 idioms contained in English. --Joseph Lo Bianco, PhD, University of Melbourne

This book does the worldwide TESOL community a great service by demystifying idioms, placing them within the continuum of collocations, phrasal verbs, multiword expressions, and other formulaic forms by helping identify important issues in the learning, teaching, and understanding of idioms. What a marvelous resource for teachers! Bravo! I recommend it highly to ESL and EFL teachers at all levels, and in language teaching contexts from K-12 to college and university. --Anne Ediger, PhD, Hunter College, City University of New York

Cat Got Your Tongue? welcomes the reader to a practical and relevant guide in the learning and teaching of idioms that aligns science with compassionate, responsive classroom teaching Illuminating! Insightful! and Instructive! --Joseph Slick, PhD, LaRoche College

About this edition

• Publisher: TESOL Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1942223226
• ISBN 13: 9781942223221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306