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The most Frequently used Spoken American English idioms : A Corpus Analysis and Its Implications DILIN LIU. Oklahoma City University Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States most teaching and reference materials on English idioms are primarily intuition based. As such, they often include seldom- used idioms and incorrect descriptions of the meaning and use of some idioms , hence limiting their usefulness to ESOL students. This article demonstrates how this problem can be addressed through a corpus-based study of the Spoken American English idioms used most Frequently by college and other professional ESOL students learning American English . The study involved a close concordance search and analysis of the idioms used in three contemporary Spoken American English corpora: Corpus of Spoken , Professional American English (Barlow, 2000); Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (Simpson, Briggs, Ovens, &. Swales, 2002), and Spoken American Media English (Liu, 2002).

TESOL QUARTERLY Vol. 37, No. 4, Winter 2003 671 The Most Frequently Used Spoken American English Idioms: A Corpus Analysis and Its Implications DILIN LIU Oklahoma City University

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