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      How Brazilian students conceptualize the experience of learning German for academic purposes

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          Abstract The present study aims to investigate how foreign language learners at the German for Academic Purposes (GAP) program at a Brazilian federal university interact in their mother tongue about their motivations to learn a foreign language as well as their motivations to participate in study abroad programs. Data were collected using focus group methodology with three focus groups of six students each (A1, A2 and B1 levels). We chose to analyze the A1 group. We conducted metaphor-led discourse analysis of the data in order to examine metaphors and metonymies, which emerged in the focus group interactions. We were able to identify the presence of systematic metaphors such as learning is hard work and learning is jumping hurdles, intertwined with conceptual metaphors such as education is a journey and difficulties are weights, which point at the motivation for learning verbalized by Brazilian foreign language learners who took part in the study.

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          Resumo Este estudo tem como objetivo investigar como aprendizes de língua estrangeira no programa de Alemão para Fins Acadêmicos (AFA) em uma universidade federal brasileira interagem em sua língua materna sobre suas motivações para aprender uma língua estrangeira, bem como sua motivação para participar de programas de intercâmbio. Os dados foram coletados usando a metodologia de grupo focal com três grupos de seis estudantes cada (níveis A1, A2 e B1). Analisamos o grupo de A1. Conduzimos uma análise do discurso à luz da metáfora nos dados para examinar as metáforas e metonímias que surgiram nas interações dos grupos focais. Pudemos identificar a presença de metáforas sistemáticas como aprendizagem é trabalho duro e aprendizagem é pular barreiras, imbricadas com metáforas conceptuais como educação é uma viagem e dificuldades são peso, que apontam para a motivação de aprendizagem verbalizada pelos participantes desse estudo.

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                Pandaemonium Germanicum
                Pandaemonium ger.
                Universidade de São Paulo/Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas/, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Língua e Literatura Alemã
                1982-8837
                October 2016
                : 19
                : 28
                : 124-152
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                [1 ] Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Brazil
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                S1982-88372016000200124
                10.11606/1982-88371928124
                e60e526c-c99b-48c1-b3a7-4e4d4a93f27e

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
                LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN

                General literary studies,General linguistics
                Linguística cognitiva,Linguística Aplicada,alemão para fins acadêmicos,Cognitive Linguistics,Applied Linguistics,German for Academic Purposes

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