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Kevin King – English in Education, 2025
This paper provides educators a foothold in the tricky terrain of metaphor, its theoretical underpinnings and pedagogical possibilities. Metaphor provides us with a means of comprehending domains of experience that do not have a preconceptual structure of their own. Conceptual metaphors permit mental imagery from sensorimotor domains to hold sway…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English Teachers, High School Teachers, College Faculty
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Margo Gottlieb – Region 19 Comprehensive Center, 2024
This framework from the Region 19 Comprehensive Center is an educational tool that stimulates thinking about what we teach and how we teach in relation to who we teach. The organizing frame is the five petals, or facets, of the hibiscus flower. Each facet pertains to a different aspect of linguistic and cultural sustainability and is designed to…
Descriptors: Cultural Maintenance, Language Maintenance, Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Curriculum
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Larisa, Naumenko – NORDSCI, 2018
Political, socio-economic, ideological matters of a new century set special requirements to immediate change of traditional approach to studying foreign languages. Academic mobility, integration in world scientific-educational space, creation of optimal educational system and programs allow efficiently solve the tasks aiming at qualitative…
Descriptors: Business English, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
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Jones, Stephanie – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2008
Grounded in feminist notions of valuing lived experiences and constructing knowledge about the wider world from material realities, this article uses autobiographical narratives and poststructural and critical theories to argue for change in children's literature. The author presents two simultaneous streams of shifting, representations and…
Descriptors: Social Class, Childrens Literature, Figurative Language, Picture Books