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Nwokah, Evangeline E.; Hernandez, Vanessa; Miller, Erin; Garza, Ariana – American Journal of Play, 2019
Language play is a key component of many children's popular graphic novels. The authors analyze the sound and word play in Dav Pilkey's illustrated Captain Underpants series. They argue that Pilkey's literary devices fall into two main areas of hyperbole and linguistic creativity and that Pilkey's language shifts the reader into a carnivalesque…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Play, Cartoons, Novels
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Li, Jie; Zou, Weicheng – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2022
In spite of the fact that task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been extensively researched in both experimental and authentic contexts, there is a scarcity of research on TBLT in the area of pre-service teaching. Our current study seeks to help fill this gap via the examination of the attitudes of thirty-nine pre-service teachers -- after an…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Task Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Dogus, Yurdagul; Ozdogru, Mehmet – Dinamika Ilmu, 2022
This research was carried out to determine the perceptions of schools of students studying in five European Union countries (Spain, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania) and the candidate country Turkey. In the study, the data were obtained through the student opinion form created by the researchers and analyzed by content analysis. In the study, it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, School Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Asvat, Zaheera Jina – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2022
Background: Research argues that parents/teachers and learners work collaboratively and this active participation in scaffolded activities builds knowledge and extends understandings. However, researchers who have explored scaffolding as a pedagogic tool do not demonstrate how this tool looks in practice. Objectives: As a teacher educator, I…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Semantics, Electronic Learning, Teacher Student Relationship
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Xiaoyan, Hu; Jing, Zhou; Jin, Lixian; Huiping, Liu; Zhang, Li – Cogent Education, 2022
This study focuses on the experiences and feelings of pre-school children in two different regions about English learning to identify attitudinal differences in these attitudes between remote and urban areas. The research adopted the elicited metaphor analysis (EMA) to investigate the interest and preferences for English learning of 160 Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Language Attitudes, Rural Urban Differences
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Kähkönen, Elina; Hölttä-Otto, Katja – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Interdisciplinary engineering programs have many perceived benefits including developing broader skills and an ability to work with complex real-life problems. However, the development of interdisciplinary programs faces many challenges including how to balance breadth and depth, how to integrate interdisciplinary learning into existing studies…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Genetics, Models
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Karatay, Halit; Kartallioglu, Nurettin; Zorpuzan, Sena Sapmaz; Tezel, Kadir Vefa – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
In this study, the effects of the conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) on the teaching of orientation idioms was investigated. The study was designed as an action research project and was conducted with 45 B2 level students from 21 countries who were native speakers of 10 different languages. The students were learning Turkish to pursue the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Turkish, Undergraduate Students, Language Usage
Qiong Wu – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) started a new approach to viewing metaphors in languages. Traditionally, metaphor is considered as one of the rhetorical devices. Conceptual metaphor, however, is an approach for us to understand abstract notions in terms of relatively concrete concepts. The HEART metaphor in Chinese…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Figurative Language, Chinese, English (Second Language)
Elizabeth Ashton – Routledge Research in Education, 2022
This book provides a fresh approach to motivation in primary school children by exploring the role of metaphor and symbol in language and art as a means of expressing insights developed through learning. The book investigates and transcends Piaget's dominant child developmental theories and considers alternative theories from psychiatry, not least…
Descriptors: Language Role, Figurative Language, Student Motivation, Elementary School Students
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Aksoy, Pinar – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020
The aim of this research is to reveal the metaphoric perceptions on the concept of "social skills" of preschool teachers. This study which has phenomenology design, one of the basic qualitative researches, was carried on 46 preschool teachers working in the provinces of Amasya, Çorum, Ordu, Samsun, and Tokat. The forms given teachers…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Interpersonal Competence, Teacher Competencies, Preschool Teachers
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Danisman, Sahin; Tosuntas, Sule Betül – International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, 2020
The aim of this study is to reveal the metaphoric perceptions of academicians and graduate students about curriculum, curriculum evaluation, curriculum evaluator and curriculum evaluation standards. The data were gathered through the participants' answers for the sentence "I think the curriculum (etc.) is like …; because…". According to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Graduate Students, Figurative Language, Teacher Attitudes
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Koring, Loes; Giblin, Iain; Thornton, Rosalind; Crain, Stephen – First Language, 2020
This response argues against the proposal that novel utterances are formed by analogy with stored exemplars that are close in meaning. Strings of words that are similar in meaning or even identical can behave very differently once inserted into different syntactic environments. Furthermore, phrases with similar meanings but different underlying…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Figurative Language, Syntax, Phrase Structure
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Jahic Pettersson, Alma; Danielsson, Kristina; Rundgren, Carl-Johan – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Previous research suggests that students use metaphors when asked to explain digestive processes and nutritional uptake. In this paper, we describe the results of a study designed to gain a deeper understanding of how metaphors and anthropomorphisms are used by students when describing such processes. We applied analyses based on the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Nutrition, Foreign Countries, Biology
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Davis, Brent; Towers, Jo; Chapman, Olive; Drefs, Michelle; Friesen, Sharon – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2020
We examine the relationship between how teachers talk about teaching and their actual teaching practices. Analyses of their talk were based on extensive transcripts and writings and focused on metaphors and images invoked when discussing knowledge, learning, and teaching. Three distinct and coherent webs of association were identified, which we…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
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Yuksel, Gozde – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
How teachers perceive concepts and facts is very important because teaching is a profession capable of shaping the cognitive, affective and behavioural behaviours of society through education. This research aims to determine the perceptions of prospective teachers studying at teacher education programmes of different fields regarding the concept…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Music
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