期刊名称：International Journal of Social Sciences and Education
印刷版ISSN：2227-393X
电子版ISSN：2223-4934
出版年度：2014
卷号：4
期号：1
出版社：Federal College of Education
摘要：This study aimed to investigatethe factors affecting native and nonnativeseniors' competence both in comprehension and production of English metaphorical expressions. The subjects included 112 EFL seniors from three universities in Tehran (72 seniors who took part in the course Using Metaphorical Expressions in EFL Contexts as the Experimental Group and 40 seniors as the Control Group) and 30 American seniors of English as the Comparison Group. The lesson plans containing activities that aimed to teach metaphorical expressions, their meanings, and the logic behind them were developed and implemented in two-hour sessions, 12 consecutive weeks. Having been administered the OPT to guarantee homogeneity between and among nonnatives, the pretest and posttest of metaphorical competence were developed and administered to assess the receptive and the productive metaphorical abilities. The data were analyzed considering the amount of metaphorical language produced and comprehended in the pretest and posttest using the t-test and ANOVA. The results revealed that natives and nonnatives differed noticeably both in comprehending and producing metaphorical expressions
