The aplication of metaphor system to the gifted and talented students' foreign language (English) teaching

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of metaphorical learningmethod for gifted and talented students? foreign language teaching (English). 38 gifted andtalented students involved in the study in Aydın Doğan Science and Art Center in 2005-2006.In this study, researcher employed pretest-posttest control group model. Measuredevices of the study were pretest, posttest, English Lesson Activity Observation Form andEnglish Lesson Performance Evaluation Measure (rubric). The researcher formed measuredevices to gather data which is necessary for the study, to measure students? Englishknowledge and to balance groups (pretest) at the beginning of the study and to see groups?situation (posttest) at the end of the study. English lesson activity observation form wasprepared to determine student?s attitude to English learning and to learn his foreign languagemethod. Student?s parents, English teacher and researcher filled this form. The aim of theEnglish lesson performance evaluation measure was to observe control and experiment groupstudents? sentence structuring level and their metaphor usage proportion when learningforeign language.After the collection of the data, the independent samples t-test with α = .05 was usedin the analysis of the quantitative data.The study demonstrated that the experiment group students? who learned withmetaphoric learning strategies academic success is better than the control group students? wholearned with traditional instruction method.