8TH INTERNATIONAL VISIBLE CONFERENCE ON EDUCATIONAL SCIENCE AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS Book of Proceedings

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Turkey. Our mission is to make Education Faculty of IshikUniversity a place where academics and researchers from all over the world meet to discuss the developments of their discipline and present their work. To serve this purpose, conferences are organized along the lines of well-established and well defined scientific disciplines. In addition, interdisciplinary conferences are also organized because they serve the mission statement of the University. We would like to thank all the participants, the members of the organizing and academic committee and University administrative for putting this conference together. 20-Function and Position of Noun phrases in English and KurdishJwan 40-Flipped Classrooms in Teaching Method Courses at Universities in IraqDr. Hamdi Serin / Alfer Khabibullin 520 AbstractIn our new scientific world of complex and abstract concepts, which are often not directly perceivable, we need a new way to spark better our perceiving of unfamiliar, complex and some problematic ideas that enters our lives. The only appropriate way to achieve the former aim is , to use metaphor or specifically " scientific metaphor " which is considered such powerful and fundamental devices within the figurative language , that can affect in our everyday communication and thinking about scientific knowledge . Metaphor is viewed as a key element of human cognition by its importance as a crucial device which is found for helping us to perceive the new , complex and abstract concepts and make these concepts to be impact and memorable by linking them to old concept that we already perceiving with physical senses that evolution has given us . Metaphor is applied frequently on technology and used for scientific purposes to make people more familiar when they are talking or thinking about new things. Nowadays evolution has not equipped humans to directly perceive new concepts, as a computer and internet which are highly complex new technology means used for communication .Since long and complex sentences in scientific texts .and the the abstract phenomena cannot be perceived , they have to be perceived imaginatively in order to explain them by using metaphors or analogies , there is a need for this study .The main aim of this study is to investigate EFL students' perception of metaphor in different scientific texts. The current study examines the hypothesis that the students of English as foreign language can not perceive metaphor, its source domain, the closest meaning of metaphorical expressions and literal meaning of metaphor in scientific text, it also investigates whether there is significant difference between male and female students in their perception of the same aspects and finding out EFL students level in perceiving metaphor in scientific texts. This study is limited to the students of fourth stage in English Department at Tikrit University during the academic year 2014 -2015. A diagnostic test has been constructed , its validity is achieved by presenting it to the jury members and its reliability has be...