Teaching idiomatic expressions to learners of EFL through a corpus based on Disney movies

• Autores: Irene López Rodríguez, Elena María García Moreno
• Localización: A survey of corpus-based research / coord. por Pascual Cantos Gómez, Aquilino Sánchez Pérez, 2009, ISBN 978-84-692-2198-3, págs. 240-253
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper attempts to provide a strategy for the teaching of idioms to learners of EFL through a corpus based on Disney movies. Adopting a cognitive approach, idioms are seen as being motivated by conceptual metaphors which tend to be grounded in our embodied experiences and which very often involve mental imagery. This imagistic component, in turn, is brought to the fore by means of Disney movies which very often commingle the pictorial, linguistic and embodied elements associated to an idiom.