anguish as a second language

A.Raimes ( anguish as a second Language?, Remedies for composition Teachers in learning to write : first or second language, 1983), “writing a synopsis of short story reinforces the students to use the aspect of language skills including structure, idiom and vocabulary which they have studied. But as a teacher we should be able to choose a short story that does not contain many idiomatic expressions in order to avoid the students checking the idiomatic expressions into dictionary”