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Difficulties in Metaphor Comprehension Faced by International Students Whose First Language Is Not English
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Littlemore, Jeannette; Chen, Phyllis Trautman; Koester, Almut; Barnden, John – Applied Linguistics, 2011
This article reports a study on metaphor comprehension by the international students whose first language is not English, while attending undergraduate lectures at a British university. Study participants identified words or multiword items that they found difficult in extracts from four academic lectures, and they interpreted metaphors from those…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Students