2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The effects of metaphor-based approach on the right-hemisphere involvement in developing EFL learners' knowledge of abstract concepts
Project/Area Number |
20K00809
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Review Section |
Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
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Research Institution | Aoyama Gakuin University |
Principal Investigator |
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Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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Keywords | proximal-distal metaphor / cognitive linguistics / mouth asymmetry / right hemisphere / left-hemisphere / L2 abstract concepts |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study investigated the relationship between a metaphor-based approach to teaching the degrees of certainty and politeness and involvement of the brain’s right hemisphere. The results show that teaching the degrees of certainty and politeness by applying the spatial concept of distance could help in second-language (L2) learning. The metaphor approach allowed participants to link the spatial concept of distance to the degree of certainty and politeness. In addition, recordings of lip movements showed that participants remembered the target items better by opening the left side of their mouths more than the right side. This indicates that the brain’s right hemisphere is involved in deep processing of expressions that reflect different levels of certainty and politeness and creating stronger memory traces.
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Free Research Field |
応用認知言語学
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
口の開き方の対称性をみて左脳右脳の優位性を試みた結果、右利きの被験者の口の左側が右側より広く開き、右脳関与の兆候が見られた。口の開き方の対称性をみて左脳右脳の優位性に基づく空間概念利用の外国語指導を学校英語教育を通じて展開させていくことを目指す。
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