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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Monica KarlssonPublisher: Multilingual Matters Imprint: Multilingual Matters Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.492kg ISBN: 9781800413320ISBN 10: 1800413327 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 14 May 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Simultaneous Effects of Age, Context, Transparency and Frequency on Idiom Comprehension in a First and Second Language Chapter 3. Do Multimodal and Visualization Techniques Enhance Students’ Comprehension and Retention of L2 Idioms? Chapter 4. Persisting Ignorance and (Partial) Misinterpretations of L2 Idioms after Treatment Chapter 5. L2 Comprehension of Creative Idiom Variants Chapter 6. Productive Mastery of L2 Idioms in Free Composition Writing Chapter 7. Summing Up and Directions for Future ResearchReviewsIdiomatic Mastery in a First and Second Language is a highly specialized work that will be of interest to seasoned teachers of an L2 at an advanced level, as well as to linguists, educationalists and researchers [...] This is a work to which I will be referring to in planning my own teaching and I am certain other teachers will find her book invaluable. -- Stuart Foster, Halmstad University, Sweden * International Journal of Language Studies Volume 13, Number 2 * Idiomatic expressions form one of the most difficult areas for language learners and cause problems even for advanced students. Monica Karlsson's book is an important and longed-for contribution to the study of learners' understanding, retention and production of idioms based on a number of experiments and learners' free essay writing. * Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Providing a comprehensive, exhaustive and authoritative overview of scholarly research on L2 learners' acquisition, comprehension, retrieval and use of idiomatic expressions, this book also covers previously neglected areas of investigation. It is a must-have for applied linguists, psycholinguists, neurolinguists, practicing teachers, machine-translation researchers, cognitive psychologists, postgraduate and undergraduate students, and more. * Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan, IECF, Iran * The book offers new and valuable insights into L2 learners' understanding, retrieval and use of idiomatic expressions. This is especially true as the studies included focus on previously largely neglected areas of investigation. It should therefore be a welcome addition to instructors and researchers alike working within this particular field. * E. Birgitta Svensson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * The book offers new and valuable insights into L2 learners' understanding, retrieval and use of idiomatic expressions. This is especially true as the studies included focus on previously largely neglected areas of investigation. It should therefore be a welcome addition to instructors and researchers alike working within this particular field. * E. Birgitta Svensson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Providing a comprehensive, exhaustive and authoritative overview of scholarly research on L2 learners' acquisition, comprehension, retrieval and use of idiomatic expressions, this book also covers previously neglected areas of investigation. It is a must-have for applied linguists, psycholinguists, neurolinguists, practicing teachers, machine-translation researchers, cognitive psychologists, postgraduate and undergraduate students, and more. * Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan, IECF, Iran * Idiomatic expressions form one of the most difficult areas for language learners and cause problems even for advanced students. Monica Karlsson's book is an important and longed-for contribution to the study of learners' understanding, retention and production of idioms based on a number of experiments and learners' free essay writing. * Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Idiomatic Mastery in a First and Second Language is a highly specialized work that will be of interest to seasoned teachers of an L2 at an advanced level, as well as to linguists, educationalists and researchers [...] This is a work to which I will be referring to in planning my own teaching and I am certain other teachers will find her book invaluable. -- Stuart Foster, Halmstad University, Sweden * International Journal of Language Studies Volume 13, Number 2 * Author InformationMonica Karlsson is Lecturer in English Linguistics and Didactics at Halmstad University, Sweden. She has been working in the field of second language acquisition for 20 years, focusing on the specific areas of grammar and vocabulary. 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