• Farid Ghaemi

  Author

• Shima Sharifi

  Author

The present study was conducted to survey the impact of metaphorical competence
and metasemantic awareness on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ writing achievement. To
this goal, after administering a PET test to homogenize the learners with regard to their
language proficiency, 75 participants encompassing a control group and two experimental
groups each consisting of 25 learners, were selected. They were given a validated pretest and
posttest on metaphorical comprehension and production. Each experimental group enjoyed its
treatment while the control group received no special treatment but general principles of
writing. After eliciting the data based on pretest and posttest results, analyses conducted in this
study were analyzed through certain statistical techniques including paired-samples t-test. The
difference between pretest and posttest results is significant enough to lead to the rejection of
two null hypotheses, hence concluding that metaphorical competence and metasemantic
awareness will be considered as a step towards facilitating the process of learning and teaching
metaphors.

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