The Teaching of Idiomatic Expressions from a New Language Learning Culture / La enseñanza de frases idiomáticas desde una nueva cultura del aprendizaje de lenguas

Abstract

Idioms are a type of writing in which the meaning differs from what the phrase apparently expresses, these expressions are the key in defining the real use of English. The objective of this article is to determine the incidence of idiomatic expressions in the teaching-learning process of real English use from the New English language culture, in order to develop the communicative, interactive and intercultural competence from the sociocultural context in which third-year students of the career Education Foreign Languages Major at the University of Pinar del Río. The quantitative and qualitative paradigms were used; as well as theoretical methods: the dialectical, the historical, the logical, the systemic and the modeling, the analysis and the synthesis; as empirical methods: documentary analysis, class observation and survey. A strategy was proposed consisting of a system of actions that focus the use of understandable idiomatic phrases and the support of interactive tasks for students to carry out inside and outside the classroom. The implementation of the strategy revealed satisfactory results in terms of the objective of learning English and its dimensions of linguistic and communicative skills, the culture of learning through reflection and interaction, and the contextualization of the language through different cultures.