İngilizce Öğretmenim Melek Gibi ve İngilizce Öğrenmek Ayna Gibi: Türk İngilizce Öğrencilerinden Yansımalar

Abstract

This study sets out to investigate the metaphors created by Turkish EFL learners towards English language teacher and learning English. The researcher uses a self-designed metaphor elicitation sheet with an incomplete sentence from twenty-four participants to gather data by designing a cross-sectional survey. The findings indicate that the participants mostly hold positive images towards both the English language teacher and learning English. Additionally, the learners’ explaining reasons for the metaphors that describe English language teacher and learning English shed light into their opinions towards those concepts, which provides leverage to the teacher so as to construct an efficient learning environment for the language learners.