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Kultti, Anne; Pramling, Niklas – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This study investigates how 6- to 7-year-old children in a bilingual preschool together with their teachers take on the challenge of translating the lyrics to a children's song from Finnish to English. With an interest in how translation activities can engage children in communication and metacommunication, and facilitate the development of…
Descriptors: Singing, Metalinguistics, Translation, Bilingualism
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Gavriely-Nuri, Dalia – Journal of Peace Education, 2009
Combining principles of peace education and political discourse analysis, this study dwells on one powerful metaphorical mechanism engaged in by Israeli political leaders: war-normalizing metaphors, a mechanism for framing war as part of human nature and normal life. Six core semantic fields were identified as particularly useful "raw…
Descriptors: Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Peace, Foreign Countries
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Rugen, Brian; Johnson, Neil – Educational Perspectives, 2007
In this article, the authors explore the representational practices found in online curriculum policy discourse from three private English language programs in Hawai'i. These representational practices attempt to position students "so that they are prepared for uncritical admission into sociocultural conditions discursively constructed well…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Figurative Language, Holistic Approach, English (Second Language)