Internalization and Production of Metaphorical Expressions with EFL Students

• Authors: Biljana Radić-Bojanić
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents the results of qualitative research with 20 EFL students, who were exposed to structured metaphorical input for one academic year. It will be demonstrated how metaphorical expressions covered in classes are used spontaneously by students in writing tasks some time after they had been introduced and practiced, which is clear evidence of internalization that surfaces during production.

Keywords

EN

EFL; internalization; metaphor; production; qualitative research; vocabulary

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 135-144

Dates

published

2013-03-01

online

2013-02-22

Contributors

author

Biljana Radić-Bojanić

• University of Novi Sad

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2013-0011