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Heather Lotherington; Noah Bradley – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
This article presents a study on novel language forms and uses across evolving digital environments, and questions whether emerging digital communication conventions should have a place in language education. The study was motivated by the deepening gap between the content of and approaches to language instruction evident in popular…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Language Research, Digital Literacy, Content Analysis
Naidu, Sham – Online Submission, 2012
In this article, the "researcher" narrates the issues faced by novice researchers in choosing the correct lenses to conduct research when searching for the truth via the use of qualitative methodology. It is argued that choosing an appropriate research approach and methodology can be described as an "arduous" journey. For the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Qualitative Research, Ethnography
Lea, Susan G. – Children's Literature in Education, 2006
The secondary worlds created in fantasy encourage the reader to compare and contrast the real world with the imaginary. In this way, fantasy as a genre can be transformative. In this article, the dystopia created in "The Giver" (1993) by Lois Lowry is examined as a metaphor for racism. After exploring the young adult novel as mystical fantasy in…
Descriptors: Fantasy, Novels, Adolescent Literature, Figurative Language
Johnson, Eric – Bilingual Research Journal, 2005
This project draws on Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) work with metaphor analysis to uncover the rhetorical strategies applied by supporters of the English for the Children organization during the 2000 Arizona Proposition 203 campaign. The data were collected from three sources: (a) "The Arizona Republic"; (b) the "East Valley…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis, Democratic Values
Danesi, Marcel – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1986
Explores some of the suggestive research on metaphor and extrapolates some general implications for second language learning and teaching. Communicating effectively in a second language involves one's ability to metaphorize. Moreover, the understanding of metaphor makes the learning process more meaningful for the student. (CB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Figurative Language, Heuristics