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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)
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
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
Sahin, Süleyman Hilmi – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The purpose of this study was to try to explain the perceptions of undergraduate students regarding geography concept using metaphors. A total of 192 students studying in the Department of Social Studies at Kütahya Dumlupinar University in the academic year 2014-2015 participated in this research. In the study following questions were searched to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Geography, Teacher Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
Ersen, Zeynep Bahar – International Education Studies, 2016
Since mathematical proof and proving are in the center of mathematics; preservice mathematics teachers' perceptions against these concepts have a great importance. Therefore, the study aimed to determine preservice mathematics teachers' perceptions towards proof and proving through metaphors. The participants consisted of 192 preservice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Cornejol, Carlos; Simonetti, Franco; Aldunate, Nerea; Ibanez, Agustin; Lopez, Vladimir; Melloni, Lucia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2007
We explore the hypothesis that induction of holistic or analytic strategies influences comprehension and processing of highly contextualized expressions of ordinary language, such as irony. Twenty undergraduate students were asked to categorize as coherent or incoherent a group of sentences. Each sentence completed a previous story, so that they…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Sentences, Figurative Language, Cognitive Processes