Metaphorical Awareness Among PG Level Students In Relation to Their Academic Achievement

Metaphor is not only an important literary device, but also a crucial part of language learning, butin India not a noticeable amount of study has been conducted on metaphor or metaphorical awareness. Thispaper tries to find out if there is any relation between the Metaphorical Awareness and the AcademicAchievement of the Postgraduate students. This study aims to investigate the influence of MetaphoricalAwareness on the Academic performance of the PG level students. The sample of the study was collectedfrom the 220 Postgraduate students (120 from regular students & 100 from students of distance learning) ofthe Department of English of The University of Burdwan who are pursuing their degree in the current session.Since it was purposive sampling, the data was not normally distributed, that is why the researchers have to usenon-parametric tests like Mann-Whitney U test, or Kendall’s Tau Correlation as Inferential statistics toanalyze the collected data. The outcomes of the study clearly showed that there is a positive relation betweenmetaphorical awareness and academic achievement of the students but that is statistically weak, significant at0.01 level. It also showed that even though there is no such difference between the metaphorical awareness ofthe PG students with respect to their residential area or mode of PG learning, there is a statistically significantdifference with respect to their gender. Therefore, the students as well as the teachers must be aware about the essence of metaphor in learning a language, especially English as a Second Language.