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Kenney, Rachael H.; Montan, Nick – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
Literature suggests that the mathematical language of teachers impacts a student's understanding of math concepts. When teachers unintentionally use ambiguous language, students' understanding of a subject can be negatively affected. We share background on specific instances in which teachers can create confusion with the language they use, and we…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Ambiguity (Semantics)
Waragai, Ikumi; Ohta, Tatsuy; Raindl, Marco; Kurabayashi, Shuichi; Kiyoki, Yasushi; Tokuda, Hideyuki – Research-publishing.net, 2015
The authors present a project that aims at understanding the way language learners write in social media in their every day lives using the target language. How do our students proceed when writing a Social Network Site (SNS) post? What resources do they use for references on word, sentences and text level? By answering these and related questions…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Social Media, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
McCarthy, William Bernard – 1992
The principle of empathic learning (involving activities that help students feel what it is to be like someone else) can be used to teach poetry, a material about which students have strong prejudices, and an activity they cannot imagine themselves ever doing or being interested in. First, students are presented with the conception that people…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Empathy, Figurative Language
Stambovsky, Phillip – 1991
A class "on" metaphor can be usefully distinguished from a class "in" metaphor. A class on metaphor concentrates on metaphor theory and function. To teach in metaphor would be to coach students in pragmatics, to guide them in the study of how key metaphors are used and help to structure discrete universes of discourse. For…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation