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Kimberley Pager-McClymont; Evangelia Papathanasiou – English in Education, 2023
In this study, we used Conceptual Metaphor Theory (henceforth CMT) for the benefit of English for Academic Purposes' teaching and learning. CMT underpins how in metaphorical expressions, one concept is understood in terms of another. We argue that CMT can help students understand and master argumentation skills and essay structure, although there…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning
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Hofmann, Eric; Voloch, Daniel – New Directions for Higher Education, 2012
Dual enrollment is a place between high school and college that is neither exclusively one nor the other. Dual enrollment inhabits a space where larger questions about higher education--the cultural practices, norms, institutional relationships and interactions, and the overall "business" of learning--are grappled with on a daily basis. To the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Dual Enrollment, High School Students, College Credits
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Bamwesiga, Penelope Mbabazi; Dahlgren, Lars-Owe; Fejes, Andreas – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2012
In this study, we aim to explore and thematically analyze higher education teachers' notions about the most important problems related to students' learning, including the teachers' notions about the approaches to learning adopted by students. The study was carried out in Rwanda with 25 university teachers engaged in group interviews. Inspired by…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Problems, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods