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Constructing Theoretical Notions of L2 Writing Through Metaphor Conceptualization DATA ANALYSIS

المؤلف:  Olga S. Villamil & Maria C. M. de Guerrero

المصدر:  Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education

الجزء والصفحة:  P82-C5

2026-08-17

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Constructing Theoretical Notions of L2 Writing Through Metaphor Conceptualization

DATA ANALYSIS

A qualitative approach was employed to analyze the written discourse of our participants as our data (See Cameron & Low, 1999, for procedures to conduct metaphor qualitative analysis). We made a list of the metaphors (original, alternate, and adopted) about the ESL writer and the ESL writing teacher supplied in Entries 1, 3 and 4. We first compared the original metaphors in Entry 1 to the alternate metaphors in Entry 3. We then compared both original and alternate metaphors to the adopted ones in Entry 4. In order to analyze the participants’ changes throughout the course, we focused on their explanations of the elements compared in the three groups of metaphors in terms of the concepts “writer,” “teacher,” “teaching writing,” and “learning to write.” We also looked into the participants’ elaboration and inclusion of novel elements in their metaphors to see whether their new conceptualizations were congruent to those previously proposed. Additionally, we took into account comments that would provide evidence of increased levels of awareness, new theorizing, and internalization of writing concepts. Further analysis of the data included inspecting responses to Entry 5 to determine the participants’ view of the impact of metaphor as a tool in understanding and conceptualizing writing. We conducted this analysis side by side at first, with two students’ logs as samples, to develop a working method. Then we proceeded separately and met regularly to compare and discuss our analyses. In the ensuing discussion, the following notation system is used:

italics: to indicate metaphors produced by the participants

“double quotation marks”: to enclose words used by the participants in their logs.