METAPHORIC IMAGE OF AN ENGLISH TEACHER AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

The article provided a survey of students' perception of the English as a foreign language teacher at the university. The study was aimed at revealing the possible contradictions in the image represented by a university teacher and their mental image formed by the first year students. The scrutiny could be interpreted as a description of the EFL teacher role in the current situation. The research method was the discourse analysis and the statistics data analysis and its interpretation; the cognitive study. To generalize, classify and interpret the results observed the descriptive method was used. In addition, there were used elements of contextual and quantitative methods of analysis and also scientific methods of observation, generalization and comparison. As a result, the most common and effective metaphoric images were singled out and their choice analyzed. Moreover, the study showed the importance of further investigation in order to explain how students perceive the EFL lessons in general.