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Download full textChen, Yi-chen; Lai, Huei-ling – English Language Teaching, 2013
Idioms have long been regarded as problematic for L2 learners due to the arbitrariness of their meanings and forms. Traditional methods of teaching idioms focus on rote learning and memorization. Recent developments in cognitive linguistics research have considered idioms as analyzable expressions which are motivated by conceptual metaphors and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ortony, Andrew; And Others – 1985
To discover whether increased exposure to and understanding of figurative uses of language would result in improved performance on a metaphorical language comprehension test, gains were measured on a figurative language test that was administered twice, approximately four months apart, to a total of 319 elementary school children in Harlem, New…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Concept Formation, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
