The Effect of Focus-on-Form(s) on Intermediate L2 Learners’ Metaphorical Competence Development

سال انتشار: 1391
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
زبان: انگلیسی
مشاهده: 384

متن کامل این مقاله منتشر نشده است و فقط به صورت چکیده یا چکیده مبسوط در پایگاه موجود می باشد.
توضیح: معمولا کلیه مقالاتی که کمتر از ۵ صفحه باشند در پایگاه سیویلیکا اصل مقاله (فول تکست) محسوب نمی شوند و فقط کاربران عضو بدون کسر اعتبار می توانند فایل آنها را دریافت نمایند.

استخراج به نرم افزارهای پژوهشی:

لینک ثابت به این مقاله:

شناسه ملی سند علمی:

RTETL01_019

تاریخ نمایه سازی: 25 آذر 1395

چکیده مقاله:

Recent developments in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance and the ubiquity of metaphor in language. Their effect has been instrumental in making significant headway intopedagogical practice and the design of teaching materials. This study aimed at exploring the efficacy of focus-on-form(s) instruction on the learning of metaphors by intermediate L2 learners of English. To do so, 80 participants who were homogeneous in terms of language proficiency and metaphoriccompetence were assigned to 3 groups―2 experimental and 1 control groups. One of theexperimental groups was exposed to a 20-session explicit teaching of metaphors (i.e., focus-on-forms) contained in the reading passages. The second group was taught the L2 metaphorical expressions through implicit instruction (i.e., focus-on-form) and was required to guess their meanings. And, thecontrol group did not receive any particular kind of instruction; however, they took the same pretest and posttest as the 2 experimental groups did. To analyze the data, analysis of covariance was utilized. The findings revealed that the explicitly-taught group gained better results on the posttest. Therefore, the results indicated a positive correlation between focus-on-forms instruction and the development ofmetaphorical competence. It could be claimed that it is possible to enhance L2 learners’ metaphorical competence via the explicit teaching of metaphors.

نویسندگان

Elham Rabi Nezhad

Department of Foreign Languages, Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan Branch, Isfahan, Iran

Mahmood Hashemian

Department of English Language, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Shahrekord University, Iran