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Yanchuan Geng; Xiaoxue Zhu; Ashley Yoon Mooi Ng – Educational Gerontology, 2024
This paper investigated teacher wellbeing in a rapidly expanding educational context of Universities of the Third Age in China. Based on the analysis of 48 metaphors innovatively elicited from 27 teacher participants, important cognitive, affective and social aspects of teaching and learning that configure teacher wellbeing have been outlined. It…
Descriptors: Teacher Welfare, Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Teaching (Occupation)
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Xin, Weihao; Jia, Chanjuan; Liu, Chunling; Wang, Jingying; Chen, Amber La Rayne – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2020
In this study, 227 pre-service teachers majoring in special education at two normal universities in eastern China were studied using a questionnaire survey. The survey sought to understand pre-service teachers' beliefs about students and teachers' role in special education, using a metaphor approach. The results are as follows: First, in terms of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Beliefs, Teacher Role, Special Education
Yingmei Luo – Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, 2021
In this chapter, I investigate how students' English learning experiences are shaped and mediated through the situated discourses revealed in Chaps. 3, 4 and 5. We see how people's lived realities are framed within situated contexts, and how their conceptions of the world are maintained and negotiated through language, discourse and identity. I…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Figurative Language, Language Usage
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Yoo Young Ahn – English Teaching, 2023
This study explores the perceptions of Chinese engineering-major students towards their English learning experience after taking a mandatory English composition course in an EMI college. The investigation centers on first-year students' perceptions of transitioning to EMI, with a focus on how the composition course has assisted students'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Language of Instruction
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Xiong, Hui; Li, Lan; Qu, Yingmei – SAGE Open, 2015
This study aims to investigate how a group of Chinese university teachers developed their cognitive models by using "English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers" metaphors. The research method includes an open-ended questionnaire, a checklist questionnaire, and verbal reports. The goal for this research is twofold. First, we will…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Models
Goode, Matthew Lawson – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Thousands of U.S. faculty travel abroad each year to teach host-country students (George, 1995). This study explores the "teach-abroad classroom", defined as "the teaching and learning processes and interactions between faculty and students" in this learning environment (George, 1987, 1995; Slethaug, 2007). Faculty and student…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, College Faculty, College Students, Qualitative Research