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Karaman, Fatma – Online Submission, 2020
The first stage in the learning process is the perception of the learning input by the student. This perception, which develops due to many factors in the learning process, has also great importance in skill acquisition. Therefore, the perception of basic language skills by the students, determining how the students make sense of the skills may…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Aydin, Burcu – Online Submission, 2017
In an English Foreign Language learning context, where access to native like use of metaphorical language is limited, gaining this ability becomes challenging. For many years, foreign language educators didn't pay much attention to idiomatic language and assumed that idioms could only be taught through rote learning. For this reason, they face…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tahriri, Abdorreza – Online Submission, 2012
Acquisition in general and first language acquisition in particular is a very complex and a multifaceted phenomenon. The way that children acquire a language in a very limited period is astonishing. Various approaches have been proposed so far to account for this extraordinary phenomenon. These approaches are indeed based on various philosophical…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Child Development, Epistemology, Linguistic Theory
Nath, Baiju. K.; V., Vineesha – Online Submission, 2009
Today as in the past, many students struggle with mathematics and become affected as they continually encounter obstacles to engagement. Mathematics is generally seen as a difficult subject and how this subject is communicated to pupils will influence how pupils learn the subject. Classroom routines play an important role in developing students'…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Literature Reviews, Educational Research, Mathematics Instruction
Gao, Hongyun; Zhu, Yue – Online Submission, 2005
Vague language is widely used in both spoken and written English and it is also a very important language variable. The process of language use is active, during which speakers and hearers constantly have to make choices out of variables. This paper mainly studies the influences of vagueness in language on second language learning and attaches…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, Influences