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Tianfang Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Conceptual Metaphor (CM; e.g., Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, 1999; Kovecses, 2020) is central to our thinking and ubiquitously manifested in our language. Given its importance, the teaching of conceptual metaphors has gained much attention in Cognitive Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. While most empirical studies have focused on specific aspects…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Concept Formation
Teng, Xuan – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Despite the growing interest in examining the link between peer-peer collaborative dialogue and second language (L2) development in recent years (Swain, Brooks, & Tocalli-Beller, 2002), much of the empirical work in this regard focused on face-to-face communication, leaving the operationalization of collaborative dialogue in text-based…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Peer Relationship
Criswell, Brett A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This exploratory, descriptive study examined the way five chemistry teachers from four different schools enacted their visions of an activity labeled as the multiple solution pathway (MSP) lesson structure--one in which students were given a relevant problem to solve and the opportunity to propose and explore several solutions to the problem. A…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis, Epistemology, Science Instruction