Idioms Comprehension among Libyan undergraduate English students at Sirt university

Abstract

Idioms are an integral and important component in the language, nonnatives suffer and struggle in their use of idioms, while natives can use idioms properly. This study purposed to examine whether Libyan undergraduate students are able to understand idiom accurately or not. This study employed quantitative method: Mäntylä’s (2004) questionnaire adopted as an instrument used for this study. This study involved 30 Libyan undergraduate Students at English department in Sirt university. Data analysis was done using SPSS for quantitative data. The result of this study   found out that the respondents replied the idioms’ task insufficiently. In other words, the participants could not understand the meanings of idioms by proper sense .