abstract: lexical interpretation is a method that guides interpreter to study words and vocabulary of quran from different perspectives and in his interpretative understandings of quran's terms refers mainly to various definitions of a word, their roots and the compositions of the sentences. there is no doubt that the holy prophet, based on divine tradition, didn’t invent a new method to e...

The ability to comprehend and produce phrasal verbs, as lexical chunks or groups of words which are commonly found together, is an important part of language learning. This study investigates the effect of ‘conceptual metaphor awareness’, as a newly developed technique in Cognitive Linguistics, on learning phrasal verbs by Iranian intermediate EFL learners. To meet this objective, two intact ho...