A metaphorical advantage for bilingual children? Understanding figurative meaning by L2 and L3 EFL learners.
This study compared school-aged monolingual and bilingual English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners in terms of understanding metaphors on recall, multiple-choice, and reasoning tasks. It also examined the relationship between cognitive capacity and understanding metaphors on different measures....
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child Language Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 339 - 359 |
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Cambridge University Press
Mar2024
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