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Cheng, Gong – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study intends to provide a semantic analysis of metaphorical expressions containing the body-part term "heart" in Chinese and English. The discussion of these expressions revolves around four perceived roles of the heart. It is suggested that the metaphorical consequences have a bodily or psychological basis on our hearts. The…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, Figurative Language, Language Patterns
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Ozturk, Kadim – English Language Teaching, 2022
To communicate effectively in any language, one needs to be competent in using four language skills; that is, reading, listening, reading, and writing- and accordingly the integrative skills instruction has come into prominence in L2 teaching. EFL teachers' beliefs, ideas, perceptions, attitudes are known to have a significant impact on their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Preservice Teachers
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Alrahaili, Musaad; Al-Otaibi, Maye A.; Al-Otaibi, Abdullah M. – English Language Teaching, 2022
The COVID-19 crisis has made the years 2020 and 2021 an unpolitical and spiritual crisis. It has affected virtually everybody in the world and introduced a new normal. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, people have been hooked on consuming news media to follow the development of this unprecedented disease. Subsequently, a new language…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Wu, Yanting – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper presents an analysis and comparison of the projection of Chinese "shen" and English "deep" from the spatial domain to other domains of time, sense, emotion, behavior, and society from a cognitive perspective by using the comparative and contrastive method, explaining the universality and differences of SHEN and DEEP…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Second Language Learning