Tác giả: Võ Thị Thùy Dương, ThS. Huỳnh Ngọc Tài (người hướng dẫn) .

Trường Đại học Trà Vinh. Năm: 2015.

Mô tả: 57Tr, kích thước: 30cm. Số định danh:

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Much has been written about Vietnamese learners’ difficulties in learning and using English vocabulary. Little research has explored the effect of implementing conceptual metaphors on teaching English phrasal verbs to Vietnamese learners of English. Using a quasi-experimental study, I make an attempt to examine the influence of applying conceptual metaphors on teaching and learning phrasal verbs to Vietnamese first year undergraduate students of English major (n = 30) at Tra Vinh University (TVU). Participants are divided into two groups. On the one hand, participants in the control group were taught a set of 20 phrasal verbs whose particles including into, up, down, out, off phrasal verbs through the traditional instructions. On the other hand, students in the experimental group were received the same input through a cognitive linguistic approach. The study employs post-test to determine learners’ level understanding and retention of phrasal verbs. Findings indicate that applying conceptual metaphor may have beneficial effects on the comprehension and retention of phrasal verbs. Implications for teaching and learning English phrasal verbs to Vietnamese learners of English are also discussed.