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Larsson, Andreas; Stolpe, Karin – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
Metaphors in gesture and speech play a pivotal role in the way that programming concepts are presented in the classroom. However, little is known about the function of teachers' metaphors in practice. This study aims to explore teachers' use of metaphors in gesture and speech in a lecture on programming. Based on video observations of three upper…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Figurative Language, Nonverbal Communication
Valentina Bambini; Giacomo Ranieri; Luca Bischetti; Biagio Scalingi; Chiara Bertini; Irene Ricci; Walter Schaeken; Paolo Canal – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Psycholinguistic research on metaphor has focused on verbal material. Yet, metaphors frequently occur in a multimodal format, blending words and pictures to convey meaning. Here we compared verbal and multimodal metaphors by using item pairs where stimulus one was always a word (e.g., "language" in the metaphorical conditions and…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Comparative Analysis
Kao, Chen-Yao – Educational Psychology, 2022
This research aimed to examine the differential effects of simile and metaphor on creativity. In the main study, 123 participants were recruited from a university in Taiwan. A within-subjects experimental design was used to investigate how variables related to simile and metaphor influenced these participants' fluency and originality scores. As…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Creativity, Foreign Countries, Verbal Communication
Lukin, Karina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
This article discusses language materialities and the Otherworld through the findings of mammoth remains and text-artifacts representing Nenets verbal art. The remains and verbal art are read together as a network of mythic knowledge that forms a semiotic whole, where different signs interact and create potentials for new significations. The…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Mythology, Networks, Semiotics
Zorzal, Ricieri Carlini; Soares-Quadros, João Fortunato, Jr. – Music Education Research, 2021
Our study examines the impact of student performance level, student gender and content matter on the verbal strategies (literal language, technical instruction and images and metaphors) teachers use in guitar masterclasses. After recording and transcribing 60 guitar masterclasses, of which 40 were selected for the final sample, we operationalised…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Teaching Methods, Musical Instruments
Mia Kaasby; Nancy H. Hornberger – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This article unfolds and argues for Biliteracy Metaphor Analysis (BMA), a methodology for examining the interpretation and use of metaphors in canon literature in a biliteracy context, in this case the canon of Danish literature read and interpreted by multilingual students in a ninth grade classroom. BMA combines Spradley's ethnographic framework…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Monolingualism, Literacy
Kadhim, Hanan Abdul-kareem; Mohammed, Wafaa Sahib Mehdi – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Aggression is a negative form of an anti-social behavior. It is produced because of a particular reason, desire, want, need, or due to the psychological state of the aggressor. It injures others physically or psychologically. Aggressive behaviors in human interactions cause discomfort and disharmony among interlocutors. The paper aims to identify…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Pragmatics, Psychological Patterns
Wolfe, Jocelyn – Research Studies in Music Education, 2019
Metaphors are an important linguistic device that can enable music teachers to explain expressive performance features in a way that makes sense to their students. This study extends the limited literature on the application of metaphors within advanced music instruction, providing new insights into the nature and function of metaphor in the way…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Advanced Students
Ennassiri, Brahim; Abouhanifa, Said; Elkhouzai, Elmostapha – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
The aim of this paper is to analyse the reasoning and symbolisations used by sixth grade Moroccan students in solving a task based on figurative patterns. Our analysis aims at identifying the systems of actions elaborated by the students to give the general expression of the sequence, according to their perceptions of the sequence of its patterns.…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Learning Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Algebra
Karwowski, Maciej; Zielinska, Aleksandra; Jankowska, Dorota M. – Review of Research in Education, 2022
Creativity is a vital topic of various educational discourses, yet the support it receives within the school system is insufficient. This chapter focuses on four particular ways of making creativity more democratized, salient, and accessible in school settings. We start by exploring the educational benefits of egalitarian theoretical approaches to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Meta Analysis, Educational Psychology, Imagery
Culshaw, Suzanne – London Review of Education, 2019
This article reports on the methodological approach taken in a doctoral study that explores what it means to be struggling as a teacher. Participants were established and experienced teachers and leaders in the secondary school system in England. A particular form of collage -- where materials are placed rather than stuck -- was used within the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Art Activities
Ahmed, Shabbir; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Rafik-Galea, Shameem; Ali, Afiza Mohamad; Zulkefli, Nor Afiah Mohd – International Education Studies, 2019
Health promotional campaign as the practice of encouraging people to improve health has increased over the last decades in response to various health problems. This paper highlights strategies used by students to develop persuasive promotional campaign posters regarding the dengue health problem. Communication and media studies students were…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Health Behavior, Persuasive Discourse, Diseases
Witts, Benjamin N.; Arief, Icha; Hutter, Emily – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2016
Learning Skinner's (1957) verbal behavior taxonomy requires extensive study and practice. Thus, novel classroom exercises might serve this goal. The present manuscript describes a classroom exercise in which two students analyzed Lady Gaga's song "Applause" in terms of its metaphorical arrangements. Through the exercise, students…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Verbal Communication, Taxonomy, Singing
Hessel, Annina K.; Murphy, Victoria A. – Journal of Child Language, 2019
We explored the vocabulary and metaphor comprehension of learners of English as an additional language (EAL) in the first two years of UK primary school. EAL vocabulary knowledge is believed to be a crucial predictor of (reading) comprehension and educational attainment (Murphy, 2018). The vocabulary of five- to seven-year-old children with EAL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Chahboun, Sobh; Vulchanov, Valentin; Saldaña, David; Eshuis, Hendrik; Vulchanova, Mila – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2017
Background: Problems with pragmatic aspects of language are well attested in individuals on the autism spectrum. It remains unclear, however, whether figurative language skills improve with language status and whether problems in figurative language are no longer present in highly verbal individuals with autism. Aims: To investigate whether highly…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Figurative Language, Language Skills