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Youness Boussaid – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This paper aims to assess the knowledge of metaphor-based teaching among teachers by investigate the obstacles that hinder them from incorporating metaphor-based teaching into their instructional strategies. This study makes use of a questionnaire to collect data from EFL teachers worldwide. The results show that the difficulties most faced by…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Howard Scott; Monaster Ujvari; Aida Mohammad Ali Bakeer; Khaled Shanaa – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2025
This paper postulates how connected learning in Palestine is characterised by the metaphor of "Sumud" as a steadfast resistance to disruption. We propose that the metaphor of "Sumud" symbolises connectedness for displaced people, whose need for connected learning encompasses a cultural and critical pedagogy, heritage, and…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Critical Theory
Mia Kaasby; Nancy H. Hornberger – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This article unfolds and argues for Biliteracy Metaphor Analysis (BMA), a methodology for examining the interpretation and use of metaphors in canon literature in a biliteracy context, in this case the canon of Danish literature read and interpreted by multilingual students in a ninth grade classroom. BMA combines Spradley's ethnographic framework…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Monolingualism, Literacy
Daelman, Silke; De Schauwer, Elisabeth; Vanobbergen, Bruno; Van Hove, Geert – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
This paper engages with conversations with two teachers who each build socially just pedagogies and engage in minor gestures in response to the socio-educational-political reality they were confronted with -- namely, a pupil disappearing from the classroom when her parents' application for immigration was rejected. In an assemblage connecting the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 2, Grade 6
Hyejeong Park – English Teaching, 2023
This study examined translingual practices in two playdates of a Korean four-year-old boy (Theo) with a Korean boy and an American boy. The boys played a game called "Candy Land." In both playdates, the boys' naturally occurring English and Korean communication strategies were observed and analyzed based on Canagarajah's (2013) four…
Descriptors: Play, Intercultural Communication, Males, Figurative Language
Gayane Paul-Kirokosyants; Vladimir Vorobyov – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
The functioning of any language is regulated not only by linguistic rules, but also by norms of social and cultural life. Nowadays, development of lingua cultural approach in worldwide education is conditioned by a re-construal of culture phenomena as a specific form of human existence. Until now, we have been dealing with an absence of sufficient…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning
Kurtipek, Serkan; Gungor, Nuri Berk – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The aim of present study was to determine the perceptions of the candidates of the sport manager on the concept of manager through metaphors. The sample of study consists of a total of 50 sports managers. In order to collect data in the research, a "metaphor form" was prepared to determine the perceptions of sport manager candidates on…
Descriptors: Athletics, Figurative Language, College Students, Administrators
Caffyn, Richard – Peabody Journal of Education, 2018
Bram Stoker talks about the beguiling nature of the vampire; the manipulation, the desire, and the threat. This article looks to outline some of the factors in international schools that impact the organization, especially leadership, and that drain energy. It utilizes the folkloric and literary metaphor of the vampire to illustrate, understand,…
Descriptors: International Schools, Instructional Leadership, Folk Culture, Figurative Language
Frantzich, Kirsten; Fels, Lynn – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2018
This article presents a new approach to psychological practice that dwells within the somatic, expressive, imaginal, poetic, narrative, and performative. Embodied Theater Ecology (ETE) as a form of Performative Inquiry is introduced and presented. This approach involves the performative unfolding of unlanguaged stories that lie at the heart of our…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Therapy, Figurative Language, Self Concept
Ostrowicka, Helena – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
The article presents results of research into the media debate on education in the context of higher education reform in Poland. The body of press materials comprised 884 texts. The theoretical basis included critical and post-Foucauldian discourse analysis. The study revealed five themes: (1) mechanisms of economic thematization; (2) expanding…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis
Xu, Li; Naserpour, Azam; Rezai, Afsheen; Namaziandost, Ehsan; Azizi, Zeinab – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
Owing to the limitations of linguistic modes to portray aptly L2 learners' metaphors of language learning experience, growing attention has been paid to taking advantage of other modes like visual ones to ameliorate this concern. Hence, the present study sought to explore images and metaphors Iranian EFL learners may have in mind about the essence…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Smith, Trevor I.; Bendjilali, Nasrine – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Several recent studies have employed item response theory (IRT) to rank incorrect responses to commonly used research-based multiple-choice assessments. These studies use Bock's nominal response model (NRM) for applying IRT to categorical (nondichotomous) data, but the response rankings only utilize half of the parameters estimated by the model.…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Multiple Choice Tests, Science Tests
Teaching Figures of Speech as a Productive Skill and Its Influence on EFL Learners' Creative Writing
Jaashan, Hasan Mohammed Saleh – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
Richards (2015) states that receptive competence is far more developed in all language users than productive competence and that in L2 learning, new lexis first shows as passive knowledge and later as active or productive competence. Moreover, productive competence is not a natural corollary to receptive competence; rather, the former requires…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Collins, Anthony – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2022
Critical thinkers and proficient readers use a composite of similar cognitive skills that are challenging to assess and difficult to cultivate. Therefore, students and teachers require an instructional model that demonstrates the acuity involved in these proficiencies. This quasiexperimental study aimed to investigate the impact of Equalities as…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Critical Thinking, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
Cahill, Helen – Gender and Education, 2022
Little has been written about how to bring feminist theory to pedagogical design, such that school students can engage with concepts such as power relations, governmentality, performativity, intersectionality, or affective assemblage. However, these concepts provide powerful thinking frames for activating insight into the shaping nature of gender…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Feminism, Educational Theories, Instructional Design