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Yilmaz Soysal – Science & Education, 2025
The objective of this descriptive study is to provide a detailed examination of science teachers' perspectives regarding scientific knowledge, science learning, science concepts, and science teaching. A total of 304 science teachers created metaphors to express their cognitions about the epistemological aspects of their work. A specifically…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Epistemology, Teacher Attitudes, Science Instruction
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Lourdes Aragón; Beatriz Gómez-Chacón; Arancha León Morillo; Esther García-Gónzalez – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
In this paper, a self-created analogy is presented based on comparing the process of osmosis with a situation recreated in a train carriage. It was implemented with upper-secondary education students at a secondary school in Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz, Spain). To assess the progression of the students' models on osmosis, their activities…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, Biology
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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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Stephanie M. Moody; Bethany Rice – Action in Teacher Education, 2025
Metaphors situated within critical reflections provide powerful insight into how preservice teachers (PSTs) understand their experiences and the world around them, particularly in areas like writing which is consistently understudied in teacher education programs. The present qualitative study uses metaphor data from Fall 2021, Spring 2022, and…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Research, Conferences (Gatherings)
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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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Monthon Kanokpermpoon – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
Social media is widely used in many different sectors worldwide. In language education, it can impact students' language learning, and students may have diverse opinions about its use. This study aimed to explore how Thai university students conceptualise social media and their perceptions of it. An elicitation task, "social media is like ……
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Figurative Language
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Ting Ma; Lawrence Jun Zhang; Judy M. Parr – Language Awareness, 2025
Studies have shown that raising L2 learners' metaphor awareness contributes to the acquisition of figurative language, which fosters students' development of language skills. However, the instruments measuring metaphor awareness, in the majority of relevant research, did not seem to have undergone proper methodological procedures for checking…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Figurative Language
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Xi Yu; Frank Boers – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
There are grounds for believing that prompting language learners to infer the meaning of new lexical items is beneficial because inferring the meaning of lexical items and verifying one's inferences invites more cognitive investment than simply being presented with the meanings. However, concerns have been raised over the risk that wrong…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Inferences