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Qiuyun Lu; Alice Deignan – SAGE Open, 2024
Metaphors are known to present both opportunities and challenges for second language learners, but relatively little is known about learners' awareness of them. To investigate this, we analyzed 72 argumentative essays written in English by a group of 37 intermediate Chinese university students of English. We identified metaphors using an…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ha Hoang – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
This method case reports on part of a doctoral investigation into the process of metaphorical language production in second language learners' writing with a combination of computer keystroke logging and stimulated retrospective interviews. The case describes the research procedure and methodological considerations behind each decision in detail.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, Writing (Composition), Research Methodology
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Smith, Anna; Hall, Matthew; Sousanis, Nick – Literacy, 2015
Drawing from the research methods of three distinct literacy studies, in this piece, we highlight the visualisation approaches integral to our enquiry processes as researchers working to make sense of literacy and learning. We aim to encourage, provoke even, a conversation about visualisation processes in literacy research by sharing the…
Descriptors: Visualization, Musical Composition, Figurative Language, Cartoons
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Barrett, Terry; Hussey, Jennie – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
Doctoral students experience many challenges on the long journey towards completion. Common problems include: synthesising data, working at a conceptual level, clarifying the relationship of the parts of the thesis to the whole, finding a voice and completing a viva successfully. Few authors have addressed the use of visualisations to meet these…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Visualization, Academic Discourse
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Griffin, Shelley M.; Beatty, Rodger J. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2010
As two faculty members in a Canadian post-secondary teacher education context, the authors inquired into their collaborative writing process initiated through an informal faculty mentoring relationship. Situating their writing in the discourses of personal practical knowledge, social constructionism, narrative inquiry, and autobiography grounds…
Descriptors: Mentors, Figurative Language, Collaborative Writing, Writing Processes
Ramsey, Shirley A. – 1987
To investigate the hypothesis that cognitive rules govern writing behavior, Carter's signaled stopping technique was used to study language and cognitive effects in public relations messages. Principles from Grunig, et al (1985) Axiomatic Theory of Cognition and Writing, which proposed premises, axioms and definitions about writing, were applied…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Figurative Language, Higher Education, Language Processing