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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
Silvia, Paul J.; Beaty, Roger E. – Journal of Intelligence, 2021
The present research examined the varieties of poor metaphors to gain insight into the cognitive processes involved in generating creative ones. Drawing upon data from two published studies as well as a new sample, adults' open-ended responses to different metaphor prompts were categorized. Poor metaphors fell into two broad clusters.…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Intelligence, Personality Traits, Experience
Fredriksson, Alexandra; Pelger, Susanne – Research in Science Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to explore how tertiary science students' use of metaphors in their popular science article writing may influence their understanding of subject matter. For this purpose, six popular articles written by students in physics or geology were analysed by means of a close textual analysis and a metaphor analysis. In addition,…
Descriptors: College Students, Figurative Language, Content Area Writing, College Science
Chen, Yi-chen; Lai, Huei-ling – English Language Teaching, 2013
Idioms have long been regarded as problematic for L2 learners due to the arbitrariness of their meanings and forms. Traditional methods of teaching idioms focus on rote learning and memorization. Recent developments in cognitive linguistics research have considered idioms as analyzable expressions which are motivated by conceptual metaphors and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning