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McMahon, Samantha; Stacey, Meghan; Harwood, Valerie; Labib, Nada; Wong, Alexandra; Daniels-Mayes, Sheelagh – Critical Studies in Education, 2023
In both academic and policy spaces, learning is often cast as lifelong, dynamic, constructive and in particular, agentic. Despite this focus students' voices are rarely privileged in these spaces -- especially in policy. We respond to this oversight by deploying Foucault's theories of knowledge to explore how students understand themselves as…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Self Concept
Kim A. Johnston; Anne B. Lane – Student Success, 2023
Generalised moves to online and more flexible delivery modes of teaching have challenged the perceptions and expectations of university educators worldwide. Congruence around educator role expectations, held by both the educator and their students, therefore is central to educator wellbeing, and by default, student success in a changing university…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teacher Welfare, Teacher Role, Expectation
Gök, Ramazan – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2020
The aim of this study is to evaluate the perceptions of school principals and teachers about the concept of merit by means of metaphors. Metaphor has been used as a data collection method. The research data were obtained from 185 administrators working in public primary and secondary schools in five central districts of Antalya/Turkey. Easily…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Principals, Teacher Attitudes, Competence
Mellado, Lucía; Parte, Laura; Villanueva, Enrique – Accounting Education, 2020
This study explores final-year undergraduate accounting students' perceptions of the accounting profession based on an analysis of personal metaphors. First, we identify and categorise the participants' metaphors regarding the accounting profession and the students' roles. Second, we identify similarities and differences in the perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Accounting, Figurative Language, Undergraduate Students
González-Cuenca, Antonia; Linero, María José – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2020
Lies and irony are paradigmatic examples of nonliteral communication; many deaf children and even adults have difficulty in understanding them. The present study assessed the understanding of lies and irony in 96 adolescents living in Spain in urban settings (58 deaf participants, 38 hearing participants; 10-19 years old). We investigated whether…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Adolescents, Intelligibility
Perrow, Margaret; Feldstein, Mary; Sieler, Arlene – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
Students who understand their writing process and see themselves as writers are more likely to successfully tackle unfamiliar genres and writing tasks. In this self-study, a college English professor and two first-year college students make a case for an extended-metaphor assignment that helps students build stronger identities as writers.…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), College Freshmen
Hastürkoglu, Gökçen – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Translation has been considered as a cross-cultural act comprising the transference of the cultural signs, rather than only finding the equivalence of linguistic patterns in the target text. As bridge-builders between different cultures, translators assume a very significant role in order to achieve the most appropriate cognitive, cultural,…
Descriptors: Translation, Cultural Education, Childrens Literature, Foreign Countries
Krzemien, Magali; Seret, Esther; Maillart, Christelle – Journal of Child Language, 2021
The generalisation of linguistic constructions is performed through analogical reasoning. Children with developmental language disorders (DLD) are impaired in analogical reasoning and in generalisation. However, these processes are improved by an input involving variability and similarity. Here we investigated the performance of children with or…
Descriptors: Generalization, Language Impairments, Figurative Language, Abstract Reasoning
Alan, Yakup – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
Metaphors are important ways to show how people perceive the world and life around them. By creating metaphors, people show how they position themselves life, and that of other people, their environment, and situations in their minds and what the phenomenon, for which they create a metaphor, means to them in today's world. This has been affected…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, College Faculty, Negative Attitudes
Determining Students' Reflective Thinking Levels and Examining Their Reflections on Science Concepts
Bozan, Serhan – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
The study aims to learn that they want to reflect on their reflective thoughts and reveal how they reflect what they have learned. Reflective thinking, one of the higher-order thinking skills, enables students to learn more easily and permanently. Students with high reflective thinking skills will be more successful both in their academic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, Science Instruction, College Science
Filik, Ruth; Ingram, Joanne; Moxey, Linda; Leuthold, Hartmut – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
According to the Presupposition-Denial Account, complement set reference arises when focus is on the "shortfall" between the amount conveyed by a natural language quantifier and a larger, expected amount. Negative quantifiers imply a shortfall, through the denial of a presupposition, whereas positive quantifiers do not. An exception may…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Linguistic Theory, Natural Language Processing, Form Classes (Languages)
Yildiz, Sevilay – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2021
In this study which aims to uncover and examine the metaphorical meanings that teachers have attributed to the concept of teaching during the pandemic period, phenomenological method that is a qualitative research design was used. The study group of the research consists of the teachers working in public primary, secondary and high schools in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Figurative Language, Teaching (Occupation)
Heather Lotherington; Noah Bradley – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
This article presents a study on novel language forms and uses across evolving digital environments, and questions whether emerging digital communication conventions should have a place in language education. The study was motivated by the deepening gap between the content of and approaches to language instruction evident in popular…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Language Research, Digital Literacy, Content Analysis
Kathleen Vail – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Rick Ginsberg and Yong Zhao want educators to question the status quo and clear out ineffective practices to make room for K-12 reforms that work. Their 2023 book, Duck and Cover: Confronting Dubious Practices in Education, Ginsberg and Zhao examine kindergarten readiness, college- and career-readiness, reading proficiency by 3rd grade, social and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
Büsra Aras; Sultan Bozkurt; Serap Önen – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
This research aimed to scrutinize and delineate the figures of speech manifesting in English hit songs. A selection of songs from Spotify's Top 30 Hit Songs List was chosen as the study material. The study employed a qualitative content analysis approach to classify the type and calculate the frequency of the figures of speech within the corpus of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction