Abstract:
This study was carried out for several objectives, those are (1) to find the
form and meaning classification of idiomatic expressions found in Sue Monk
Kidd’s Novel The Secret Life of Bees. (2) to explain the meaning of idiomatic
expressions found in Sue Monk Kidd’s Novel The Secret Life of Bees and (3) to
describe the application in English language teaching by using Sue Monk Kidd’s
Novel The Secret Life of Bees.
This research used descriptive qualitative because the data is in the form of
words rather than number.The object of this research is the novel entitled The
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and supported by some reference books
and websites related to this study.In analysing the data, the researcher reads the
novel, collects the data and analyses the data by identifying and classifying the
idiomatic expressions.
From the analysis in the novel entitled The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue
Monk Kidd, the researcher found that idiomatic expressions, based on their form,
are classified into two categories, the fixed and non-fixed idioms. From the study
it was found that among 119 idioms taken as the data, 48 (40.34%) idioms are of
the fixed idioms and 71(59.66%) are of the non-fixed ones. Another classification
applied to those idioms is classification based on the meaning, i.e. transparent or
non-transparent idioms. Related to this classification, the researcher found that 73
(61.34%) idioms are transparent and 46(38.66%) idioms are not transparent in
their meaning. And the researcher also searched the meaning from each idiomatic
expressions. The Application of this study is the teacher uses a novel entitled The
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd in English language teaching especially in
teaching narrative text in the form of a novel.
