Enhancing Metaphoric Awareness in Specialised Reading.

By F. Boers. 2000

168 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. F. Boers
2. Sachi Yasuda
3. June Eyckmans
4. H. Stengers
5. N. Schmitt
6. Sungmook Choi
7. E. Peters
8. Seth Lindstromberg

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. F. Boers
2. Sachi Yasuda
3. June Eyckmans
4. H. Stengers
5. N. Schmitt

In Language and Linguistics

1. H. Stengers
2. Sachi Yasuda
3. June Eyckmans
4. F. Boers
5. N. Schmitt

Citations in the corpus

• Presenting figurative idioms with a touch of etymology: more than mere mnemonics? (2007, background): “Our optimism is fuelled by studies which have yielded encouraging results with regard to learners’ ability to interpret figurative senses of polysemous words on the basis of knowledge of the literal senses of these words (e.g. Boers, 2000b; Csábi, 2004; Verspoor and Lowie, 2003).”
• REMEMBERING FIGURATIVE IDIOMS BY HYPOTHESIZING ABOUT THEIR ORIGIN (2001, background): “36 Prospect Vol. 16, No. 3 December 2001 The results of several controlled learning experiments have shown that raising learners’ awareness of the metaphoric nature of idioms can indeed have a significant beneficial effect on vocabulary retention (Boers 2000a, 2000b).”
• Learning Phrasal Verbs Through Conceptual Metaphors: A Case of Japanese EFL Learners (2010, background): “Her research interests include second language writing, academic literacy, genre-based pedagogy, corpus linguistics, and English for specific purposes.”