Abstract

GHOLAMINEJAD, Razieh. Identity Construction and Reversal Conceptual Transfer Among Iranian EFL Learners. How [online]. 2017, vol.24, n.2, pp.63-79. ISSN 0120-5927.  https://doi.org/10.19183/how.24.2.341.

This article draws on a qualitative study which seeks to explore whether Iranian English as a foreign language learners experience any reversal conceptual transfer and whether they construct two identities as a result of learning a foreign language. The findings from the open-ended questionnaires distributed among 65 undergraduates at the University of Isfahan as well as 45 interviews conducted in a private language school reveal that most of the participants feel they have partly experienced reversal conceptual transfer. However, most of them claimed not to have constructed a new foreign language identity in English, while those who did had a more positive attitude towards their English identity.

Keywords : English as a foreign language; identity; reversal conceptual transfer; Whorfian linguistic relativity.

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