Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi
Yazarlar: Nahide ARSLAN
Konular:Dil ve Dil Bilim
Anahtar Kelimeler:Metaphor,Perception,French,French text book,Living in France
Özet: The aim of this study is to determine secondary school students’ perceptions about the concepts of French, French text book and living in France through the use of metaphors. Metaphors, considered as a reliable and valid source for generating new ideas in education, provide important information to learn new information about the students’ thoughts, personal perceptions and experiences in teaching French. In this study prepared within the scope of qualitative research, the data were collected from 38 students, determined through typical case sampling by using the purposeful sampling method, had been educating in the 6th and 7th grades of a private school in Bursa during 2017-2018 educational year. Then, each participant was asked to complete the expressions of “French is like…; because…” French textbook is like…; because…” and “living in France is like…; because…” and to write an original metaphor that best represented their perceptions. The collected data were analyzed with the content analysis method. The metaphors about learning French were interpreted by analyzing totally in nine different themes in which there exist seven categories under the heading of positive associations (saving, depth, education, entertainment, value, development and support) and two categories (boring and hard) under the heading of negative associations. The results obtained in this study show that the students developed a total of 113 current metaphors for the three relevant concepts of teaching French; of the 38 metaphors produced for the concept of French, 25 are positive (68,9%) and “water”, “hard” and “rose” metaphors were commonly used; of the 38 metaphors preferred for the concept of the French textbook, 26 are positive (68.4%) and “encyclopedia” and “rainbow” metaphors were mostly consulted; of 37 metaphors found for the concept of living in France, 34 are positive (91.9%) and were frequently expressed by “imagination” and “dream” metaphors