Examining EFL Teacher Candidates’ Conceptions of English Language Teachers through Metaphors | Zendy

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Examining EFL Teacher Candidates’ Conceptions of English Language Teachers through Metaphors

Author(s) -

Fadime Yalçın Arslan,

Emrah Cinkara

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

gaziantep university journal of social sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1303-0094

DOI - 10.21547/jss.265494

Subject(s) - psychology , linguistics , focus (optics) , literal and figurative language , mathematics education , pedagogy , philosophy , physics , optics

This study aims to investigate EFL teacher candidates’ metaphors regarding English language teachers. The data was collected through 102 teacher candidates’ essays written on their views of being an EFL teachers and teaching. The metaphors were qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed. Content analysis of the essays revealed a total of 134 metaphors categorized in four groups: people, objects, actions and animals. The verbs, adjectives and adverbs in the host statements of metaphors were also investigated and were categorized into two groups, namely focus on self-development and focus on other-development. Percentages were calculated and given for metaphors, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in each category.

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