%0 Journal Article
%T A Study on the Effect of Metaphor Awareness Raising on Chinese EFL Learners¡¯ Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention
%A Li-qun GAO
%A Guo-hua MENG
%J Canadian Social Science
%D 2010
%I Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture
%X The research investigates the vocabulary acquisition and retention effect of raising learners¡¯ metaphor awareness on EFL learners (non-English majors) of intermediate-low English proficiency level. The subjects are first-year non-English college students in a vocational college. The pre-test, immediate post-test and delayed post-test experiment lasted for a whole semester and the data collected at the tests were processed with SPSS Windows 13.0. The result shows that in EFL class, organizing metaphorical expressions along their metaphorical theme is more effective in enhancing EFL learners¡¯ vocabulary retention. Accordingly, efforts to raise learners¡¯ metaphor awareness should be made in classroom-based EFL teaching and the considerations should be given in teaching treatment to achieve a better effect in EFL vocabulary teaching and learning. Keywords: metaphorical theme/source; domain metaphor awareness; Vocabulary acquisition; vocabulary retention    R¨¦sum¨¦:  La recherche ¨¦tudie l'effet  de la sensibilisation ¨¤ la m¨¦taphore sur l'acquisition et la m¨¦morisation de vocabulaire chez les ¨¦tudiants chinois EFL (sp¨¦cialit¨¦ non-anglais) qui ont un niveau d'anglais interm¨¦diaire-faible. Les sujets d'¨¦tudes sont des ¨¦tudiants en premi¨¨re ann¨¦e dans une ¨¦cole professionnelle non-anglaise. Le pr¨¦-test, le post-test imm¨¦diat et le post-test diff¨¦r¨¦ ont dur¨¦ un semestre entier et les donn¨¦es recueillies lors des tests ont ¨¦t¨¦ trait¨¦es avec SPSS Windows 13.0. Le r¨¦sultat montre que dans la classe EFL, l'organisation des expressions m¨¦taphoriques le long de leur th¨¨me m¨¦taphorique est plus efficace dans l'am¨¦lioration de
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