Difficulties in Metaphor Comprehension Faced by International Students whose First Language is not English

By Jeannette Littlemore, P. Chen, Almut Koester, John A. Barnden. 2011

148 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. N. Schmitt
2. Marijana Macis
3. F. Boers
4. Sachi Yasuda

In Language and Linguistics

1. F. Boers
2. N. Schmitt
3. Marijana Macis
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6. Lars Stenius Stæhr
7. M. Garnier
8. Kazuya Saito

Citations in the corpus

• Not just ‘small potatoes’: Knowledge of the idiomatic meanings of collocations (2017, background): “The difficulty of idioms applies to even relatively proficient learners, as international students at a British university often misunderstood the idioms used by lecturers there (Littlemore et al., 2011).”
• Cognitive Linguistic approaches to teaching vocabulary: Assessment and integration (2011, background): “Littlemore et al. (2011), for example, report that university lecturers’ use of figurative phrases is a major source of misunderstandings for international students.”