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Büsra Aras; Sultan Bozkurt; Serap Önen – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
This research aimed to scrutinize and delineate the figures of speech manifesting in English hit songs. A selection of songs from Spotify's Top 30 Hit Songs List was chosen as the study material. The study employed a qualitative content analysis approach to classify the type and calculate the frequency of the figures of speech within the corpus of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Salehi Kahrizsangi, Farzaneh; Barwell, Richard – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
Metaphors are recognized as bridging scientists' challenges in communication with the public. In mathematics, however, which often involves abstract concepts and relations, less attention has been paid to the role of metaphors in public communication. In this article we examine the metaphors appearing in the discourse of 10 mathematicians in five…
Descriptors: Radio, Figurative Language, Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts
Reima Al-Jarf – Online Submission, 2023
Time metaphorical expressions are common in all languages and in general as well as specialized contexts. This study explores the similarities and differences between English and Arabic time metaphorical expressions containing , and the difficulties that student-translators have in translating them; the translation strategies they use and the…
Descriptors: Time, Figurative Language, Arabic, English (Second Language)
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Metani, Idriz; Dano, Sidita – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
Lexical meaning, as an important and essential aspect of the word, has long attracted the attention of scholars, who, in trying to know its nature, have sometimes mystified it by seeing it as an inexplicable thing and sometimes simplified it, equating it with the function of the word, with the concept, even with the "reali" itself that…
Descriptors: Semantics, Indo European Languages, Computational Linguistics, Textbooks
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Jaroenkitboworn, Kandaporn – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
This paper aims to study English jokes on Facebook. Since the current generation of our students is often described as Net Geners, learning the English language via jokes posted on social media can be one of the supportive ways for EFL learners to improve their L2 linguistic competence as well as L2 humor competence. The data, or jokes, in this…
Descriptors: Humor, Social Media, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Kuhi, Davud; Aghrabaei-Fam, Yousef; Rezaei, Shirin – International TESOL Journal, 2022
Metaphor analysis has been used as a cognitive tool to raise awareness about assumptions and beliefs held by teachers and learners about the process of learning and teaching. Motivated by such an ambition, this study conducted with a quantitative and descriptive design examined the metaphors produced by Iranian high school students in an EFL…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language, English (Second Language)
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Guo, Yi – English Language Teaching, 2019
Learning idioms has always been difficult for L2 learners of English. Drawing on a cognitive linguistic perspective of idiom learning, this paper reports on an empirical study that investigated the effects of incorporating the knowledge of conceptual metaphor and metonymy in L2 classroom instruction of English idioms. The study confirmed the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ekoç-Özçelik, Arzu – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic brought life to an unexpected halt, and all levels of education including higher education had abrupt changes from face-to-face teaching to emergency remote teaching to sustain the continuity of education. English preparatory schools that provide newly-enrolled university students with one-year intensive English language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Tooher, Helen; Johnson, Patrick – Issues in Educational Research, 2020
This pilot study explores the effectiveness of a strategy for overcoming post-primary students' misconceptions within the topic of algebra. Although central to the study of mathematics, algebra can be an area of difficulty for many students. A misconception is typically classified as flawed understanding of a concept causing repeated errors, and…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Algebra, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction
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Ott, Kate – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2016
When seeking a more nuanced understanding of sexuality, participants can benefit from hands-on activities that provide experience with the limitation of descriptors and social shaping of definitions. In many sexuality education contexts, participants enter the learning environment with a narrow definition of sexuality. The following game provides…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Learning Activities, Sex Education, Teaching Methods
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Huang, Wenhong; Feng, Dezheng – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
This paper examines the motivations of Chinese learners of Japanese across three different grades through Elicited Metaphor Analysis and semi-structured interview. Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 Japanese majors (55 in total) in a Chinese university were asked to produce metaphors that reflected their motivations to learn Japanese. The metaphor data…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Figurative Language
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Hinkel, Eli – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2017
Currently, a relatively large number of spoken and written conventionalized expressions have been collected, catalogued, and systematized. In language pedagogy, a clear implication is that teaching grammar and vocabulary is likely to be more complicated than working with syntactic rules and single-word items. Old and new insights associated with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Phrase Structure, Figurative Language, Syntax
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Asmali, Mehmet; Çelik, Handan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
Metaphors reflect the way people think and know the world. When they are considered within teaching profession, they can be strong agents revealing teachers? beliefs about their profession. They may also explore the meaning that teachers attach to themselves. Despite their strength to shed light on how teachers conceptualize themselves, metaphor…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Chikiwa, Clemence – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
This study's focus was two-fold, first to look at forms of gestures teachers of multilingual mathematics classes use during teaching; and second to find out how teachers of multilingual mathematics classes utilize learners' home language, language of learning and teaching and gestures to foster understanding in the teaching of mathematics. This…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Speech Communication, Semiotics, Figurative Language
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Putranti, Sulistini Dwi; Nababan, M. R.; Tarjana, Sri Samiati – Dinamika Ilmu, 2018
Students of English language can benefit their learning from translating English novels which can be found easily everywhere. Since many of those novels contain sexual languages, students need to be exposed on how to deal with taboo, vulgar and harsh languages. This research investigated how to produce a good and qualified translation of taboo,…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Language Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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