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Wang, Chia-Yu – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
Teaching with analogies is an important pedagogy that helps learners construct abstract conceptions through reasoning with something familiar. Heat concepts were chosen for this study because they have an intangible nature and involve complex mechanisms that often challenge school-aged learners. Learning this kind of complex concept with analogies…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Science Instruction, Grade 8, Abstract Reasoning
Chen, Yi-chen; Lai, Huei-ling – English Language Teaching, 2013
Idioms have long been regarded as problematic for L2 learners due to the arbitrariness of their meanings and forms. Traditional methods of teaching idioms focus on rote learning and memorization. Recent developments in cognitive linguistics research have considered idioms as analyzable expressions which are motivated by conceptual metaphors and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning