Abdelaaziz El Yamani
List of John Benjamins publications in which Abdelaaziz El Yamani is involved.
Articles
2026 A quasi-experimental evaluation of CMT: Embodied-based idiom instruction in a multilingual Moroccan context Pedagogical Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This quasi-experimental study investigates the effectiveness of a Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and embodiment-based instructional approach on idiom comprehension among Moroccan EFL learners. Eighty Baccalaureate science-track students were assigned to either an experimental group (EG)… read more
2025 Navigating body-part idioms: Conceptual translation strategies in English and Arabic FORUM 23:1, pp. 107–128 | Article
Idioms are fixed, non-compositional expressions unique to a particular language whose meanings cannot be translated literally. Due to their opaque nature, idioms are difficult to understand by their constituent units, making translation challenging as the meaning may be incomprehensible. If… read more