Metaphors
•A metaphor is a figure of speech that uses one thing to mean another and makes a comparison between the two. The key words here are “one thing to mean another.
• It implies comparison between two unlike entities
• This comparison is achieved by equation.
"Feel like plastic bag" It is implying that someone is feeling lost like a plastic bag in the wind, being controlled by someone and have no way of getting up and that they are floating through life without a purpose.
Metaphorical language is often problematic in second-language acquisition and learning and in English literacy instruction.
Native speaker students who grow up in the mainstream American culture,immersed in oral language and schooling, acquire cultural and linguistic competence in metaphorical language. However, ELL students are asked in their adolescence to acquire a new language for which they have no cultural references or natural oral immersion. Two or three years of English language education can prepare them only for the surface features of English, providing basic reading and writing skills, but that is hardly adequate for meeting challenging language and literacy demands.
•A metaphor is a figure of speech that uses one thing to mean another and makes a comparison between the two. The key words here are “one thing to mean another.
• It implies comparison between two unlike entities
• This comparison is achieved by equation.
"Feel like plastic bag" It is implying that someone is feeling lost like a plastic bag in the wind, being controlled by someone and have no way of getting up and that they are floating through life without a purpose.
Metaphorical language is often problematic in second-language acquisition and learning and in English literacy instruction.
Native speaker students who grow up in the mainstream American culture,immersed in oral language and schooling, acquire cultural and linguistic competence in metaphorical language. However, ELL students are asked in their adolescence to acquire a new language for which they have no cultural references or natural oral immersion. Two or three years of English language education can prepare them only for the surface features of English, providing basic reading and writing skills, but that is hardly adequate for meeting challenging language and literacy demands.
Teaching Metaphors to ELLs
An explicit study of the evolution of conventional metaphors can be productive for English language learners to learn language and culture simultaneously.
1/ Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Metaphorical Language.
2 /Class Discus
sions of Metaphorical Language.
3/ Learning metaphorical language in a meaningful and authentic context also serves as an invitation for students’ metaphoric creation.
An explicit study of the evolution of conventional metaphors can be productive for English language learners to learn language and culture simultaneously.
1/ Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Metaphorical Language.
2 /Class Discus
sions of Metaphorical Language.
3/ Learning metaphorical language in a meaningful and authentic context also serves as an invitation for students’ metaphoric creation.
Using Analogies to Teach Thinking, Language & Content to ELLs
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Metaphors in Science; Students Can Gain a Deeper Understanding of Language Use.
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