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Measuring Metaphors: A Factor Analysis of Students’ Conceptions of Language Teachers

Nikitina, Larisa, and Furuoka, Fumitaka, (2008) Measuring Metaphors: A Factor Analysis of Students’ Conceptions of Language Teachers. metaphorik.de, 15 (-). pp. 161-180. ISSN 1618-2006

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Abstract

Research studies in the fields of general education and language pedagogy recognize the importance of metaphor as a research tool. Metaphors can help teachers articulate and
construct their professional experiences (Kramsch, 2003) and ameliorate the classroom practice (Cortazzi & Jin, 1999). The majority of the previous studies that employed
metaphors focused on the teacher-produced images and adopted a qualitative approach to metaphor analysis. The present study departs from this format. It focuses on the student-generated metaphors about language teachers and employs a quantitative analysis to examine the dimensions around which these metaphors align. A questionnaire containing metaphors about language teachers was distributed to 98 students at Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Factor analysis was employed as a research technique to identify the dimensions along which the students’ perceptions aligned. The findings of the present paper lend support to the previous attempts at metaphor taxonomy by Oxford et al. (1998) and Chen (2003).

Item Type:Journal
Keywords:language teaching and learning, learner produced metaphors, quantitative analysis, Malaysia
Subjects:P Language and Literature
L Education
ID Code:7974

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