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Génesis Guarimata-Salinas; Joan Josep Carvajal; M. Dolores Jiménez López – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
This study focuses on the changes that doctoral education has experienced in the last decades and discusses the role of doctoral supervisors. The figure of doctoral supervisor continues to be a subject of much debate; therefore, the aim of this study is to provide a universal, global, and common definition that clearly establishes the roles and…
Descriptors: Supervision, Educational Change, Role Perception, Classification
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Bian, Lin; Cimpian, Andrei – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Language can be used to express broad, unquantified generalizations about both categories (e.g., "Dogs bark") and individuals (e.g., "Daisy barks"). Although these two classes of statements are commonly assumed to arise from the same linguistic phenomenon--"genericity"--the literature to date has not offered a direct…
Descriptors: Classification, Language Usage, Generalization, Undergraduate Students
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Chan, Joy Wai Yan; Chan, Winnie Wai Lan – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: The debate on using concrete versus abstract materials in learning mathematics has been longstanding. For decades, research has focused on the physical characteristics of materials when defining them as concrete or abstract. Aims: This study extends the field by proposing a two-dimensional classification, which defines materials as…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Mathematics Instruction, Classification, College Students
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Emanuel Bylund; Steven Samuel; Panos Athanasopoulos – Language Learning, 2024
Research has shown that speakers of different languages may differ in their cognitive and perceptual processing of reality. A common denominator of this line of investigation has been its reliance on the sensory domain of vision. The aim of our study was to extend the scope to a new sense-taste. Using as a starting point crosslinguistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Classification, Language Processing
Jacob P. Wong-Campbell; Ashley Gerhardson; Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero; Naunihal Zaveri – Association for Institutional Research, 2024
While the Two or More Races category has been the de facto mechanism to count multiracial college students since 2010, little research has critically examined how this category has been used in institutional research contexts. Extending previous scholarship on monoracism in higher education, we define "quantitative monoracism" as the…
Descriptors: College Students, Multiracial Persons, Racism, Institutional Research
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Ellen Vandenplas; Katrien Van Poeck; Thomas Block – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Climate change education (CCE) brings about existential concerns of students. Teachers in turn are confronted with didactic demands to take into account the existential challenge climate change elicits. However, conceptual haziness about how to understand 'the existential' in CCE complicates didactic research on the topic, impedes researchers to…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Sustainability, Higher Education
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Ovchinnikova, Elena; Van Mol, Christof; Jones, Elspeth – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
Many papers on international student mobility have analysed different macro factors influencing the decision making of international students. However, only a limited number of studies have considered the role of language distance on international educational choices. This paper aims to fill that gap by identifying the role of language proximity…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Study Abroad, Language Usage, Language Classification
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Kamile Kirca; Elif Sözeri Öztürk; Burcu Bayrak Kahraman – Educational Gerontology, 2024
Metaphors are part of everyday language as they help us to communicate effectively and allow us to reveal meaning to concepts. Older adults have been described using metaphors like 'Tsunami' in western countries. However, it is unknow which metaphors are used to describe older adults in Turkey. The aim of this study was to reveal the perceptions…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, College Seniors, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language
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Salinas, Cristobal, Jr.; Doran, Erin E.; Swingle, Ethan C. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2020
This chapter provides a primer on the evolution of terminology used to classify the Latinx/a/o population in the United States, the origins of the term "Latinx," and an analysis of how community colleges currently use the term.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Hispanic American Students, Classification, Definitions
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Nina Woll; Pierre-Luc Paquet; Isabelle Wouters – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
While studies have shown that additional language (Lx) learners build on knowledge of previously acquired languages (Ringbom 2007), the natural interaction between languages is rarely exploited in Lx classrooms. This study explores the nature of metalinguistic reflections and crosslinguistic connections during plurilingual consciousness-raising…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, German, Second Language Learning
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Yildiz, Funda Uzdu – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study aims at describing in detail how university students in Turkey use euphemisms in their daily language usage. The description of the euphemisms in the study was made according to the linguistic formations of euphemisms defined by Warren and accepted in the literature. The euphemisms used by the participants were determined by asking them…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Turkish, College Students, Interpersonal Communication
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Jing Chen; Yi Jiang – SAGE Open, 2025
Anticipatory "it" pattern, which encodes interpersonal stance, plays a crucial role in academic writing. While previous studies have been explored the overuse and the underuse of this pattern among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners and published writers, there has been limited exploration of how EFL learners use the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
Reima Al-Jarf – Online Submission, 2023
Time metaphorical expressions are common in all languages and in general as well as specialized contexts. This study explores the similarities and differences between English and Arabic time metaphorical expressions containing , and the difficulties that student-translators have in translating them; the translation strategies they use and the…
Descriptors: Time, Figurative Language, Arabic, English (Second Language)
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Flavin, Michael; Zhou Chen, Ting; Quintero, Valentina – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2020
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have mission statements as a matter of course. This article analyses 127 mission statements from UK HEIs, comprising 76.048% of the mainstream UK higher education sector. The statements were divided into the categories of Russell Group; Other; and Specialist Institution. A mixed methods research approach was…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Position Papers, Institutional Mission, Language Usage
Tasker, David Gasbarro – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Written language occupies a uniquely important space in the university. The present investigation concentrates upon variation in the situations and language that characterize the different varieties of writing produced at the undergraduate level in the English department. The aim of such an investigation is to identify and characterize the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing (Composition), Written Language, English Instruction
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