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- Title
An Analysis of Jordanian EFL Learners' Figurative Competence of Color-Based Idioms.
- Authors
Abushunar, Majd
- Abstract
This study utilizes two translation tasks to investigate the competence of color idiomatic expressions of Jordanian EFL learners. It also analyzes their errors and strategies when rendering color idioms into English or Arabic. The two tasks include 26 sentences, each of which has an English or Arabic color idiomatic expression. The sample of the study consists of 62 Jordanian graduate students who are MA and PhD students of English. The results of the study reveal that graduate students do not have a very good idiomatic competence of color expressions. The results also display that similarities and differences of color connotations may negatively interfere or positively transfer the meaning from one language into another. EFL graduate students easily acquire English color-based idioms which have absolute or relative equivalents in Arabic. However, they rely on their knowledge of L2 and L1 as well as the context to approach the meaning of English color idioms with no Arabic equivalent. The study concludes that graduate students usually translate English color idioms using the strategies of paraphrasing or giving Arabic equivalents. However, they tend to apply the strategies of paraphrasing, literal translation, or avoidance when dealing with Arabic color idioms.
- Subjects
ENGLISH as a foreign language; ENGLISH language education; JORDANIAN students; IDIOMS; ERROR analysis in foreign language education
- Publication
Language in India, 2021, Vol 21, Issue 12, p131
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article