A Study on the Effect of Metaphor Awareness Raising on Chinese EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention
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Abstract
The research investigates the vocabulary acquisition and retention effect of raising learners’ metaphor awareness on EFL learners (non-English majors) of intermediate-low English proficiency level. The subjects are first-year non-English college students in a vocational college. The pre-test, immediate post-test and delayed post-test experiment lasted for a whole semester and the data collected at the tests were processed with SPSS Windows 13.0. The result shows that in EFL class, organizing metaphorical expressions along their metaphorical theme is more effective in enhancing EFL learners’ vocabulary retention. Accordingly, efforts to raise learners’ metaphor awareness should be made in classroom-based EFL teaching and the considerations should be given in teaching treatment to achieve a better effect in EFL vocabulary teaching and learning.Keywords: metaphorical theme/source; domain metaphor awareness; Vocabulary acquisition; vocabulary retention Resume: La recherche etudie l'effet de la sensibilisation a la metaphore sur l'acquisition et la memorisation de vocabulaire chez les etudiants chinois EFL (specialite non-anglais) qui ont un niveau d'anglais intermediaire-faible. Les sujets d'etudes sont des etudiants en premiere annee dans une ecole professionnelle non-anglaise. Le pre-test, le post-test immediat et le post-test differe ont dure un semestre entier et les donnees recueillies lors des tests ont ete traitees avec SPSS Windows 13.0. Le resultat montre que dans la classe EFL, l'organisation des expressions metaphoriques le long de leur theme metaphorique est plus efficace dans l'amelioration de la memorisation de vocabulaire chez les apprenants EFL. En consequence, les efforts visant a sensibiliser la conscience des apprenants sur la metaphore doivent etre realises dans l'enseignement EFL base sur des cours en salle de classe et les considerations devraient etre y accordees pour atteindre un meilleur effet dans l'enseignement et dans l'apprentissage de vocabulaire anglais .Mots-Cles: Theme metaphorique ; sensibilisation a la metaphore ; domaine source; acquisition de vocabulaire; memorisation de vocabulaire
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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