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B. Research Problems

There are two problems formulated in this research. 1. What are the major strategies to process the intended meanings of English idioms? 2. How effective do the strategies lead the semester four students of the English Language Education Study Program to the intended meanings?

C. Problem Limitation

The limitation is needed in order to discuss the topic thoroughly. This research is limited to the strategies used to process the meanings of idioms. Since there are many possible strategies that can be used, the researcher limits the strategies to using background knowledge of students ’ first language to find the equality or similarity in students’ first language, using context, using direct translation, creating some imaginations based on the words, focusing on certain words in the idiom that can help the students to reveal the meaning, and relating each word in the idiom to another word in the idiom – association. The strategies are obtained by conducting an interview with participants after distributing the first questionnaire on the occurrence of idioms. Moreover, the researcher also limits the study only to some English idioms. Not all English idioms will be discussed in this study because the point is to find the major strategies to process the meanings of the idioms. The idioms are taken from two books of English idioms randomly and to give the idioms contexts, the researcher uses the British National Corpus BNC. Since the BNC contains the 7 data which are taken from people ’s daily conversations, it is considered adequate to help the researcher to gather the data. The other limitation is on the participants. The researcher chooses semester four students of ELESP to be the subjects in this investigation. Not all the students in ELESP will be the population because the researcher wants to discuss this topic comprehensively. Semester four students are selected because they have been studying English for two years. This knowledge is considered sufficient for this investigation. And it will be explained further in Chapter 3.

D. Research Objectives

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