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Rivière, Elora; Champagne-Lavau, Maud – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
The present study in French sought to investigate which factors predict irony perception most efficiently. An experiment was developed following three steps. The first two steps focused on the creation of stimuli to be evaluated in the third step. In this last step, participants, whose sociocultural characteristics (gender, age, and level of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, College Students, Foreign Countries, French
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Fattahi, Nazila; Nushi, Musa – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2021
The ubiquitous nature of metaphor in everyday life and its significance in second language learning has triggered plethoric research on the relationship between metaphor and language learning. To contribute to the still growing literature, the current study explore the effect of learner variables, namely gender and proficiency, on metaphor use in…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Language Usage, Figurative Language, Second Language Learning
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Murathan, Fatih – International Education Studies, 2019
The main aim of this study is to investigate the perceptions of students who participate in sports organizations in universities regarding the term "sports". With this main aim, the perception of the term was explained by metaphors. The study group includes 108 female and 112 male volunteer students, who studied in various departments of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Athletics, Team Sports, College Students
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Erdem, Cahit – Online Submission, 2018
This study aims to identify university students' perceptions of English through the use of metaphors. This is a qualitative study with phenomenological design. The data were collected from 342 first grade university students at a state university through a semi-structured form, in which the participants were asked to complete the sentence…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries
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Tuncay, Nazime; Poyraz, Cengiz – Online Submission, 2013
Distance education has been one of the hottest changes in the training sector last years. In an effort to understand and visualise this change, the authors of this paper have initiated a study that aimed to drive out the distance education students' metaphors in the last 5 years. The authors have distributed the "Distance Education Metaphor…
Descriptors: Distance Education, College Students, Student Attitudes, Student Surveys
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Mangan, Doireann; Winter, Laura Anne – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
Students from refugee backgrounds face unique challenges within higher education. This article reports analysis from a systematic review of qualitative research which aimed to explore these students' experiences. Four databases were searched, inclusion/exclusion criteria applied and the remaining studies subjected to a quality assessment, leaving…
Descriptors: Refugees, Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Educational Experience