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Akman, Özkan; Açikgöz, Bedriye – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
Metaphor is a tool that helps us perceive the world by expressing more than word art. Metaphors are used in certain areas of education. It appears in different ways in the fields of literature, philosophy, sociology, educational sciences, social studies. Teachers also tell concrete and abstract data through metaphors to make it easier to keep in…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Figurative Language, Cognitive Processes, Phenomenology
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Sever, Melih; Ozdemir, Seyhan; Jobson, Kate – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
The aim of this study is to explore and analyze metaphors constructed around academics, in both the contexts of the UK and Turkey, to see if general opinion on academics seems to be shifting from the well-known 'ivory-tower' reputation, and if the perception differs amongst sub-groups based on their varying amounts of exposure to the reality of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Figurative Language, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Yagcioglu, Ozlem – Online Submission, 2018
Public notices are always very important in all parts of the world. But there are many different kinds of notices in different countries of the world. They differ according the cultures and the societies in that city, in the town, or in the village. This study deals with the public notices, the definitions, and the explanations of these notices.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Signs
Ördem, Eser; Paker, Turan – Online Submission, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether teaching vocabulary via collocations would contribute to retention and use of foreign language, English. A quasi-experimental design was formed to see whether there would be a significant difference between the treatment and control groups. Three instruments developed were conducted to 60…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Karabacak, Erkan – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study deals with unplanned terminology development in the subject field of economics within media discourse. It examines how economic terms in Turkish newspapers emerge, are used, and cease. This developmental process is also analyzed through productivity of economic terms and the factors affect them. The subject terms are also analyzed as a…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Written Language, Economics, Newspapers