ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces some useful macro-strategies and approaches for enhancing students' learning of idioms identified by research. Idiom comprehension plays a crucial role in idiom acquisition because a learner needs to understand an idiom before acquiring it. Thus, helping students understand idioms should be the main focus of idiom instruction. An idiom corner is a space on a wall of the classroom used to post idioms that students have encountered or that the teacher would like students to learn. Given such information, teachers should try their best to use, whenever possible, learning activities that will advance the use of the said problem-solving strategies to help students understand and learn idioms. Students will need to figure out the meaning of such idioms via close syntactical and semantic analyses, using linguistic, conceptual, and pragmatic knowledge as well as imagination in some cases.
