Iranian High School Students’ Beliefs about Language Learners: A Qualitative Study

Nader Assadi Aidinlou; Fahime Farjami; Ali Rezaee Javidan

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Iranian High School Students’ Beliefs about Language Learners: A Qualitative Study

Nader Assadi Aidinlou, Fahime Farjami, Ali Rezaee Javidan

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 2, Issue 3-1)

Received: 28 April 2014 Accepted: 12 May 2014 Published: 14 June 2014

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Abstract

This study aims at examining the metaphors created by two groups of language learners in Iranian high schools (43 males and 43 females) in Famenin. Learners were required to write the metaphors which truly conceptualized their perceptions of the English educational system in Iran. Their metaphors were categorized based on the taxonomy developed by the scholars in the field (Martinez, 2001). The results highlighted remarkable points which the most important one is that; in Iran, still, most of learners work based on the principles of the behaviorists, these findings are compatible with those of Pishghadam and Mirzaee (2008) and Pishghadam et al. (2011) which asserted that Iran’s educational system is still under the influence of modernist, behaviorist and positivist views of learning.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 2, Issue 3-1) This article belongs to the Special Issue Foreign Language Teaching and Learning (Models and Beliefs)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.s.2014020301.13
Page(s)	21-31
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Keywords

Metaphor, High School, Linguistic Metaphor, Beliefs and Conceptions, Conceptual Metaphor, Metaphor Analysis

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Nader Assadi Aidinlou

Department of English Language Teaching, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran
Fahime Farjami

Young Researchers and Elite Club, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran
Ali Rezaee Javidan

Department of English Language Teaching, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran

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