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Fixed expressions, including idioms and proverbs, give language colour, but they also sometimes give language learners headache. Finding the factors that affect, or are related to, the learning of such expressions has been a long standing concern of many researchers and practitioners. This book explores whether, and to what extent, lexical inferencing strategies can predict EFL learners´ comprehension and production of English idioms and proverbs. This book may be of interest to foreign language learners and teachers, vocabulary learning researchers and materials developers.

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Abbas Ali Zarei, an associate professor in TEFL at Imam Khomeini International University in Qazvin,Iran, has had 55 books and 97 papers published. He has also presented at 72 conferences across the world.Hamideh Shirmohammadi, an MA holder in TEFL from Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, teaches at various language institutes.

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