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Rod Ellis; Carsten Roever; Natsuko Shintani; Yan Zhu – Multilingual Matters, 2024
Taking a psycholinguistic perspective, this book investigates how second language (L2) learners' pragmatic abilities in English can be measured. It complements and extends earlier work on the testing of implicit and explicit grammar. The authors present a set of tests they developed using both well-established methods of measuring pragmatic…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Polišenská, Kamila; Chiat, Shula; Szewczyk, Jakub; Twomey, Katherine E. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Theories of language processing differ with respect to the role of abstract syntax and semantics vs surface-level lexical co-occurrence (n-gram) frequency. The contribution of each of these factors has been demonstrated in previous studies of children and adults, but none have investigated them jointly. This study evaluated the role of all three…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Syntax
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Kepoglu, Abdurrahman; Musa, Mihriay; Divrik, Gülsün – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2021
Physical education contributes greatly to the physical, psychological and intellectual development of individuals. The awareness of the students of the coaching department about the concept of physical education should basically be revealed. The aim of this study is to reveal the perceptions of students studying in the coaching department about…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletic Coaches, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Bahadir, Ferdi – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
Professional knowledge courses are crucial in delivering teacher candidates the knowledge and skills that are required in the profession of teaching. This paper studies teacher candidates' metaphoric perceptions regarding the concept of professional knowledge courses. This study, which employed a model of qualitative research that is phenomenology…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Competencies, Professionalism
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Rogayan, Danilo V., Jr.; Reusia, Denn Harry R. – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2021
Understanding prospective teachers' (PTs) conceptions and perspectives about teaching internship may serve as an anchor for understanding their new experiences. The study explores Filipino PTs' concepts of teaching internship through a metaphorical lens. Seventy-five PTs from a state-owned university in the Philippines served as the subjects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Internship Programs
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Altuntas Gursoy, Ilke; Sever, Sedat – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
The research purpose is examining the poems in Turkish textbooks for 1st-8th grade in terms of figurative language usage. The data source used in this qualitative study was gathered from the Turkish textbooks for the 1st-8th grade which was published in 2015-2016. The data were collected through document analysis and analysed via content analysis.…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Proverbs, Language Patterns, Turkish
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Baskan, Ahmet; Özkan, Erdost – World Journal of Education, 2021
This study aimed to determine the perceptions of students who learn Turkish as a foreign language towards "writing in Turkish." The study was conducted using the phenomenology pattern, one of the qualitative research methods. The study sample consisted of one hundred seventy-five (175) students who were from two state universities in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, College Students, Turkish
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Creed, Allison; McIlveen, Peter; Perera, Harsha – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2021
We measured 16 career-related metaphors' salience to university students and graduates (N = 577). The JOURNEY metaphor recorded the highest score (62%) with moderate levels for ENCOUNTERS AND RELATIONSHIPS, A STORY, and ROLES. Exploratory structural equation modelling revealed four factors labelled as Constraint (i.e. entrapped, struggling, or…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Job Search Methods, Self Efficacy, Career Development
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Beeman, Chris; Blenkinsop, Sean – Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
In this paper, Cassandra's role in the ancient Greek myth of the fall of Troy, as one given the gift of prophesy but cursed to be disbelieved, is explored with a view to understanding the apparently powerless position of climate justice and environmental activism to change public policy. To make this case, we re-interpret the myth of Cassandra to…
Descriptors: Climate, Sustainability, Environmental Education, Activism
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Shaw, Donita; Armstrong, Sonya L.; Alejandro, Adam J.; Martin-Young, Shelley; Weyen, Abby – Adult Literacy Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore possible implicit models of reading that drive curriculum and instruction in adult and postsecondary developmental reading contexts. This qualitative investigation explored faculty conceptualizations of reading via linguistic metaphors. Forty-six reading education professionals completed an online survey…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs, Reading Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Grace, Elizabeth; Kelton, Molly L.; Owen, Jeb P.; Diaz Martinez, AnaMaria; White, Alison; Danielson, Robert W.; Butterfield, Patricia; Fallon, Michaela; Schafer Medina, Georgia – Afterschool Matters, 2021
Interest is growing among out-of-school time (OST) educators in integrating the arts into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) programming (e.g., Kelton & Saraniero, 2018). Arts-integrated STEM--or STEAM--programming now takes place in a wide variety of OST environments, from relatively institutional learning settings, such…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, Thinking Skills, Integrated Curriculum
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Delgado, Antonio; McGill, Craig M.; Rocco, Tonette S. – Adult Learning, 2021
The instructor-student relationship may be understood as an educational helping relationship. Through interviews with 15 participants enrolled in masters or doctoral programs in education, this qualitative study explored graduate students' perceptions of educational helping instructor-student relationships over the entirety of their higher…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Helping Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Graduate Students
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Gunaydin, Yusuf – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2021
The concept of bilingualism is gaining prominence in our daily lives due to political and social reasons. The fact that bilingualism has become an undeniable fact requires investigation of it in educational sciences. How prospective teachers perceive the concept of bilingualism will fill a gap in the literature in terms of understanding…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Language Teachers, Turkish
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Wang, Chia-Yu – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
Teaching with analogies is an important pedagogy that helps learners construct abstract conceptions through reasoning with something familiar. Heat concepts were chosen for this study because they have an intangible nature and involve complex mechanisms that often challenge school-aged learners. Learning this kind of complex concept with analogies…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Science Instruction, Grade 8, Abstract Reasoning
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Hazar, Esin; Bozpolat, Ebru; Yildiz, Hatice – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2023
Academic ethics and plagiarism research are typically handled separately, with these concepts examined from either the perspective of academics or students. In order to better understand these two interconnected phenomena, this study examined them through the eyes of both academics and postgraduate students, who are often referred to as the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Plagiarism, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
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