The role of idiomatic expressions in teaching languages and cultures as part of a multilingual approach

This research aims to examine The role of idiomatic expressions in teaching languages and cultures as a part of a multilingual approach enlightening common idioms with the same meanings of different cultural aspects in class of French, English and Turkish. In this research, we tried to gather expressions in three different languages; French, English and Turkish on three feelings universal; love, fright and sadness which they can use in a class of language of secondary education (11-13 age) to benefit from multilingualism. Thanks to this research our learner may discover idioms with cultural differences about the same feelings. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of The Association of Science, Education and Technology