Internalization and Production of Metaphorical Expressions with EFL Students

Biljana Radić-Bojanić

doi:10.2478/rjes-2013-0011

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Internalization and Production of Metaphorical Expressions with EFL Students

Romanian Journal of English Studies

Volume 10 (2013): Issue 1 (March 2013)

By: Biljana Radić-Bojanić

Open Access

|Feb 2013

Abstract

The paper presents the results of qualitative research with 20 EFL students, who were exposed to structured metaphorical input for one academic year. It will be demonstrated how metaphorical expressions covered in classes are used spontaneously by students in writing tasks some time after they had been introduced and practiced, which is clear evidence of internalization that surfaces during production.

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