Metaphors in the Press: The Effectiveness of Working with Newspaper Tropes to Improve Foreign Language Competence

The given article intends to focus on some approaches to teaching English as a second language at an advanced or proficient level. The paper primarily deals with the ways in which stylistic aspect of newspaper language can be put to use by university students thus becoming an integral part of their classroom discourse. The study aims at presenting newspaper metaphors as cognitive units of the language which, in its turn, allows one to consider them cultural items as they often have realia behind them. Newspaper language, sensitive to any fact of daily life vastly use metaphors, and given that it seems evident that by mastering newspaper metaphors adult learners dramatically increase their chances of becoming competent language users. [For complete volume, see ED567118.]