Teaching Comprehension of Idioms in efl classroom; Problems and Solution Abstract

Conclusion
The goal in this study was to obtain a general vision of ESL teachers’ views about idioms in ELT. The result of the study showed that idioms are an important aspect of language learning. Idioms are significant because they are frequently used especially in verbal communication. Also, the difficulty of idioms originates for the following reasons: the gap between the surface meaning of the idioms and the actual meaning, the correct usage of idioms, the lack of the cultural and historical knowledge of Target Language, and finding the equivalent idiom in the Native Language. Moreover, the relationship between culture and idioms is sometime undeniable.
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