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Ültay, Eser – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2022
Metaphors are expressions that are frequently used in people's minds to explain concepts with other unrelated concepts and have a personal emphasis on learning. The purpose of this study is to determine and interpret the metaphorical perceptions of primary school pre-service teachers towards environmental pollution. The "phenomenology"…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Primary Education, Perception, Figurative Language
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Zübeyde Er; Perihan Dinç Artut – Journal on Mathematics Education, 2023
This research aims to determine the metaphorical perceptions of gifted and normally developing students attending primary education regarding solving mathematical problems. In the research, the qualitative research method was employed. In the 2022-2023 academic year, 206 students studying at the primary school level in Turkey were determined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Gifted, Academically Gifted
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Jumaah, Ruaa Talal; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan Bin; Ali, Afida Mohamad – Arab World English Journal, 2020
The study aims at unraveling the conceptual metaphor underlying the English verb of visual perception "see" in fiction writing. It has two research questions: 1) What are the conceptual metaphors underlying the linguistic expressions of the English verb of visual perception "see" in fiction writing and 2) What are the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Fiction, Figurative Language, English
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Lewkowich, David; Pasieka, Jillian – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2017
When it comes to education, the dream cannot be controlled by the strictures of language or the conscious mind, and in its insistently disobedient character, is unwilling to submit to the demands of a deliberate and conscious curriculum. Indeed, we might say that what dreams represent is the absence of education itself, and a mobile energy…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Reading Writing Relationship, Cognitive Processes, Transformative Learning