Ideational Metaphor in Saudi EFL Students’ Academic Writing: A Systemic-Functional Linguistic Analysis

• Published in: Journal of language teaching and research Vol. 14; no. 5; pp. 1255 - 1261
• Main Author: Alhusaiyan, Eman A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Academy Publication Co., LTD 01.09.2023; Academy Publication Co., Ltd
• Subjects: Academic writing; Cognition; College students; Composition (Language arts); Corpus linguistics; English as a second language; English as a second language instruction; Essays; Learning disabilities; Linguistics; Metaphor; Second language writing; Second language writing instruction; Social networks; Student teacher relationship; Student writing; Study and teaching; Systemic functional linguistics; Saudi Arabia

Over the past decade, there has been an upsurge in studies on the quality of EFL students' English academic writing. However, research on grammatical metaphors in academic writing by EFL students is limited. As such, the purpose of this research is to identify the occurrences of ideational meta...