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Chan, Kan Kan; Reynolds, Barry Lee – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
Students' beliefs and attitudes have a direct impact on their behavior and engagement in the learning of mathematics. This study examined students' beliefs of dynamic mathematics lessons through the lens of the contemporary theory of metaphor. Participants of the study were grade 10 students in a Macao private secondary school. 51 students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 10, Private Schools
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Yuzieva, Kristina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
This article shows how language materiality is conceptualized through an ethnolinguistic analysis of the representation of the owl as an indication of human-bird relationships. This approach enables addressing the multiple relations between birds and speakers and their perception of the environment as these are reflected in language, folklore and…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Animals, Speech Communication, Environment
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Raffoul, Jessica; Potter, Michael K.; Andrews, David M. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) as a field invites researchers to examine their teaching practice with the goal of understanding its impact and effect on student learning (Hutchings & Shulman, 1999). Though inclusive by nature -- belonging to no discipline yet informing practice in all -- SoTL does have its own discourse,…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Ertok, Nese; Ummanel, Azize – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2021
The proper and thorough functioning of the education process is based on the cooperation of the elements in education. Among the elements that should cooperate and act in harmony are teachers, school administrators and experts in educational management and supervision. Further, a curriculum is needed for the education process to proceed in a…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Concept Formation, Role Perception, Teacher Attitudes
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Bulut, Ayhan – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2021
Introduction: The purpose of this study is to determine the metaphorical perceptions of preschool teachers in regard with the concept of inclusive education. Methods: In this study, phenomenology design, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was used. The study group of this research consists of preschool teachers, who have students…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Figurative Language, Inclusion
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Upadhaya, Baburam; Sudharshana, N. P. – TESOL Journal, 2021
Given the positive effect of teaching idiomatic expressions using the conceptual metaphor (CM) view, and the many benefits of using language tasks in English as a second or foreign language context, this article aims to help teachers design and develop tasks on the basis of CM and task-based language teaching (TBLT). In this study, a series of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Karaatmaca, Ceren; Altinay, Fahriye; Altinay, Zehra; Dagli, Gokmen; Akcil, Umut – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2021
Purpose: The aim of the study is to evaluate the perceptions of participants on the sensitivity training in conducting online context. Design/methodology/approach: The researchers focus on the knowledge and attitudes of digital citizens as well as their perceptions on sensitivity training taking into consideration the technological aspects. In…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes, College Students, Consciousness Raising
Dilekçi, Ümit; Limon, Ibrahim; Sezgin Nartgün, Senay – Online Submission, 2021
This study aimed to determine pedagogic formation students' metaphorical images of "students, teachers, and schools." The study sample consisted of 101 pedagogical formation students of the University of Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal in the 2019-2020 academic year. Participants were recruited using convenience sampling. Metaphors were used as…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language, Student Characteristics
Luz-Ayde Himelhoch – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Everyday language consists of many idiomatic and figurative expressions. For non-native English speakers to achieve native fluency, control of idiomatics--native speech that includes the use of both idiomatic and figurative language--is paramount. In this study, I aimed to explore the use of comics and comic strips in the learning and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Language Patterns, Comprehension, Native Speakers
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Mackenzie, Jim – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2018
This paper takes up Shannon Rodgers' 2016 critique of curriculum writers' call for observable verbs ("Minding our metaphors in education." "Educational Philosophy and Theory" 48 (6), pp. 563-578), and argues that a more effective line of critique should focus not on metaphorical thinking, but on the notion of observation…
Descriptors: Verbs, Criticism, Figurative Language, Journal Articles
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Judy Sansom – Kansas English, 2018
With the growth in popularity of young adult (YA) literature over the past few decades, novels such as John Knowles's 1959 classic "A Separate Peace" deserve to be analyzed for typical YA themes, such as sexuality, identity, dysfunctional family units, and coming of age motifs. This paper evaluates "A Separate Peace" from a…
Descriptors: United States Literature, Adolescent Literature, Novels, Figurative Language
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Brian W. L. Wong; Hau Ching Lam; Julia Wing Ka Lo; Urs Maurer; Shuting Huo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
While extensive quantitative research has shed light on the cognitive mechanisms of dyslexia, few mixed-methods studies have been conducted to examine the perceptions of and attitudes towards learning in children with dyslexia, especially in Hong Kong, a bilingual context. In addition, the validity of the metaphor elicitation technique, which was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Chinese, Dyslexia
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Jennifer Schero – Journal of Museum Education, 2024
In the last decade, explorations into the work of volunteer educators, titled "docents," within art museums revealed turbulent circumstances that led some institutions to alter their volunteer programs, if not end them entirely. How did art museums come to rely on volunteers to undertake such an important responsibility -- that of…
Descriptors: Museums, Volunteers, Art Education, Educational History
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Süer, Sedef; Karagül, Arzu – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2023
The aim of this study is to determine and describe the features of innovative teachers from the perspective of pre-service teachers. For this purpose, this study took a qualitative approach and included 139 pre-service teachers studying at the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades in the English Language and German Language Teaching Departments in the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Educational Innovation, Figurative Language, Student Attitudes
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Burns, Patrick; McCormack, Teresa; Jaroslawska, Agnieszka J.; O'Connor, Patrick A.; Caruso, Eugene M. – Cognitive Science, 2019
Human languages typically employ a variety of spatial metaphors for time (e.g., "I'm looking forward to the weekend"). The metaphorical grounding of time in space is also evident in gesture. The gestures that are performed when talking about time bolster the view that people sometimes think about regions of time as if they were locations…
Descriptors: Time, Nonverbal Communication, Children, Adolescents
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