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Download full textÖz, Hüseyin; Efecioglu, Emine – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
This article reports the findings of a study that investigated the role of graphic novels in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) to International Baccalaureate students (aged 15-16) in TED Ankara College Foundation Private High School. Two intact 10th grade classes were randomly assigned to the control and experimental groups who studied…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedBeardsley, Monroe C. – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1975
Author considered the range of questions involved in aesthetic education focusing on the categorization of art works as carriers of meaning in the broadest sense, signs. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Products, Concept Formation, Critical Thinking
Peer reviewedGajda, Robert S. – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1974
Attempts to develop a critical thinking model which will teach students to cope effectively with advertising. (RB)
Descriptors: Advertising, Critical Thinking, Health Education, Higher Education
McCallister, Cynthia – 1994
This research analyzes language development in the classroom as fostering the development of students who are community builders, problem solvers and critical thinkers. Examples of both positive and negative classroom situations are used to illustrate these three language domains. Successful classrooms are safe communities where children are…
Descriptors: Community, Community Attitudes, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
HAYAKAWA, S.I. – 1964
A SEMANTIC DISCUSSION OF LANGUAGE IN GENERAL AND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN PARTICULAR, THIS VOLUME IS DIVIDED INTO TWO BOOKS--"THE FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE" AND "LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT." BOOK 1 DISCUSSES LANGUAGE AND SURVIVAL, SYMBOLS, REPORTS, INFERENCES, JUDGMENTS, CONTEXTS, INFORMATIVE AND AFFECTIVE CONNOTATION, ART AND TENSION, AND THE "LANGUAGES"…
Descriptors: Advertising, Biological Influences, Classification, Critical Thinking
Smith, Mark – 1997
The proliferation and subsequent devaluation of electronic symbols necessitate a rethinking of classroom discourse. In recent years, "visual literacy" has become an issue among those who feel that the increasingly symbolic orientation of communications compels the writing instructor to address the dynamics of both visual and written…
Descriptors: Advertising, Classroom Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Critical Thinking
UPTON, ALBERT – 1961
THIS BOOK ABOUT THE FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE IN HUMAN LIFE EMPHASIZES LEARNING HOW TO CLASSIFY, DEFINE, AND ANALYZE. FOLLOWING AN EXPLANATION OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ROOTS OF LANGUAGE, CHAPTERS ON ANALYSIS, MEANING, SIGNS, AMBIGUITY, SEMANTIC GROWTH, AND METAPHOR LEAD TO A DESCRIPTION OF THE COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE,…
Descriptors: Classification, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Creative Thinking
