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Werkmann Horvat, Ana; Bolognesi, Marianna; Kohl, Katrin – Applied Linguistics, 2021
This article investigates the connection between multilingual experiences and creative metaphoric competence. As multilingualism has been shown to bring cognitive advantages in creative thinking, this article explores whether the ability to interpret creative metaphors differs in participants with less versus more multilingual experience. The…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Multilingualism, Figurative Language, Semantics
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Akkaya, Burcu – Journal of Education and Learning, 2021
This research aimed to determine the metaphorical perceptions of class teachers and reveal whether these perceptions are affected by the teaching approaches they adopt. Because teachers' opinions were collected in written form, this study is a descriptive survey model study. The participants of the study consisted of 64 class teachers chosen…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Public Schools, Figurative Language
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Taylor, Jerome; Kyere, Eric; King, ?pryl – Urban Education, 2021
The overarching purpose of this article is to introduce A Gardening Metaphor (AGM) as an evolving framework for accelerating the closure of racial achievement gaps in America. Toward this end, we provide: (a) an examination of the racial disparities in education that are disproportionately experienced by Black children; (b) a rationale for why…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Achievement Gap, African American Students, Social Justice
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Lugaoqiang; Liu, Zhang; Han, Xiao – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
Songs, along with poetry, short stories, novels, and dramas, belong to the language of humanity (literary language). As an art form that began to be popular in the last century, it has come into the view of linguists more frequently today. Between its lines, vivid expressions such as "city can sleep", "animals can talk to each…
Descriptors: Singing, Linguistic Theory, Figurative Language, Psycholinguistics
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Koçoglu, Erol; Aydin, Mesut; Gökalp, Latif; Bayram, Mecnun; Akbas, Evren – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
Distance education is an education type applied under ordinary and extraordinary conditions. This type of education has synchronous and asynchronous dimensions of realization. It can be said that computer-based internet technologies gain significance in a process where any of these dimensions are used. In these technology-supported learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Zhang, Ran; Mogana, Dhamotharan – Cogent Education, 2021
Based on the conceptual metaphor theory, this paper focuses on applying the metaphor-enriched medical English supplement to the College English class to facilitate the metaphoric competence of students and the learning of Medical English, aiming to facilitate college students to migrate smoothly from English for General Purposes to English for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Medical Students, English (Second Language)
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Ulas, Mehmet – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
This study aimed to explore the perceptions of other branch teachers towards physical education teachers and lessons through metaphors. A basic qualitative research model was used in this study. Two hundred twenty-one teachers working in various types of schools and branches in the 2018/2019 education year in Burdur, Turkey, constituted the study…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teacher Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Physical Education
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Özcan, Bülent Nuri; Ates, Özlem – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
This study aims to reveal the perceptions that classroom teacher candidates have regarding the concept of computer-assisted mathematics instruction (CAMI), with the help of metaphors. Furthermore, the another aim of the study of this study consists of an analysis of whether these metaphors differed based on the teacher candidates' learning…
Descriptors: Correlation, Figurative Language, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Karam, Khaled Mostafa; Elfiel, Helmy – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
This paper argues that compression is a hallmark of creativity, demonstrating the effect of the process of compression and decompression on the cultivation of creative potentials. This study also suggests some cognitive strategies by which creative literary compression can be encoded and decoded in the light of some relevant theories. In order to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Concept Formation, Literature
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Güllü, Esin – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
This study has been designed to examine pre-service teachers' metaphorical perceptions of physical education and sports. In this study, phenomenology, one of the qualitative research designs, was used. The study group consists of 60 pre-service teachers studying at the Department of Physical Education and Sports Teaching at Sirnak University…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Student Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Preservice Teachers
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Starr, Ariel; Cirolia, Alagia J.; Tillman, Katharine A.; Srinivasan, Mahesh – Child Development, 2021
Why are spatial metaphors, like the use of "high" to describe a musical pitch, so common? This study tested one hundred and fifty-four 3- to 5-year-old English-learning children on their ability to learn a novel adjective in the domain of space or pitch and to extend this adjective to the untrained dimension. Children were more…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Music
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Yildiz, Funda Uzdu – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study aims at describing in detail how university students in Turkey use euphemisms in their daily language usage. The description of the euphemisms in the study was made according to the linguistic formations of euphemisms defined by Warren and accepted in the literature. The euphemisms used by the participants were determined by asking them…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Turkish, College Students, Interpersonal Communication
Byoung-gyu Gong – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The emergence of machine intelligence, which is superior to the best human talent in some problem-solving tasks, has rendered conventional educational goals obsolete, especially in terms of enhancing human capacity in specific skills and knowledge domains. Hence, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword, espousing both crisis rhetoric…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Policy Formation, Change Strategies
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Bas, Gokhan; Senturk, Cihad – Research in Pedagogy, 2020
The purpose of this research was to examine teachers' perceptions regarding the concept of curriculum through metaphor analysis. In this research, "phenomenology research design" was adopted. The participants of the research consisted of volunteering teachers (n = 261) working in ten public high schools in the province of Nigde, Turkey.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, High School Teachers, Public Schools
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Alaiyed, Majedah Abdullah – Arab World English Journal, 2020
This paper investigates code-switching from Standard Arabic into English in six episodes of the TV cartoon series "Dora the Explorer." The significance of this study is that it will provide an in-depth understanding of the strategies and structures of code-switching used to address children in order to teach them English. The study…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Interpersonal Relationship, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning
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