Although facilitatory effects were reported for graphophonic similar L1-L2 scenarios, limited CLO effects were found between idiomaticity distanced L1-L2s. To probe how L1-L2 idiomatic alikeness might
Experiment 1: 71 Chinese English Learners' Intuitions of Overlapping Idioms Experiment 2: 68 Chinese English Learners' Score in a Literal-Figuretive Interpretation Test (and their L2 intuitions).
Normative data were obtained from thirty-one EFL students from a Dual-Degree ProgramWith a Pretest-Posttest design, students' performance of L2 idiom learning was analysed in two MELR models.
