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Topalak, Sefika – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2022
This research was conducted to reveal the metaphorical perceptions of music teacher candidates about piano lessons during the pandemic period's online education process. The study group of the research consists of fortyone students who are studying in Trabzon University Fatih Education Faculty Fine Arts Education Department, Music Teaching…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Music Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Music Education
Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen; Stitzlein, Sarah – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
In this study, we employ discourse analysis of US gubernatorial political advertisements to analyze the discursive struggles over the purposes of public schools. The advertisements are analyzed to demonstrate how rhetoric works to shape consent for dominant, human capital views regarding schooling's purposes, as well as to communicate alternative…
Descriptors: Public Education, Advertising, Politics of Education, Figurative Language
Saglamel, Hasan; Erbay Çetinkaya, Sakire – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2022
The current COVID-19 situation has affected almost all walks of life, including language education. As a result, remote teaching practices have become the mainstream offering in many settings. However, how students respond to this transition needs to be grasped to develop a deeper understanding of the educational practices at this period. Metaphor…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Emergency Programs, Distance Education
Isaacs, Devon S. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Native American students in higher education are often asked to find a sense of belonging in places and spaces that do not reflect their cultures or worldviews. This can lead to isolation and a feeling of having to choose between themselves and their identities as Indigenous peoples. This contributes to poorer mental health, loss of well-being,…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, College Students, Sense of Community, Indigenous Knowledge
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2022
The third and latest (2022) edition of this dictionary and thesaurus of contemporary figurative language and metaphor has been updated to better reflect the language of groups, social media, and social change. The work seeks to identify language used figuratively in everyday contemporary English, along with its distinguishing collocates. The first…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Figurative Language
Mubarak M. Aldawsari; Abdullah D. Alenezi; John I. Liontas – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly become a pivotal force in education, offering personalized learning pathways and dynamic solutions to longstanding instructional challenges. In English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts, idiomatic competence remains a challenging aspect of language development, often eluding effective coverage through…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Teaching Methods, Technology Integration
Xiao Han – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Foucauldian critical studies are cornucopian in illustrating how policy as discourse normalizes and yields human beings into made subjects in modern societies. However, Foucault's own slide from the 'terminal stage of discourse' pays little attention to the linguistic elements, and thus weakens the theory's potency in explaining the reality.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Administration, School Personnel
Marco S. G. Senaldi; Debra Titone – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Past work has suggested that L1 readers retrieve idioms (i.e., "spill the tea") directly vs. matched literal controls ("drink the tea") following unbiased contexts, whereas L2 readers process idioms more compositionally. However, it is unclear whether this occurs when a figuratively or literally biased context…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Figurative Language
Metaphors in Teaching Dilemmas Conveyed by First-Year Science Teachers in Online Mentoring Dialogues
E. J. Bahng; Julie A. Luft; Jonah Firestone – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2024
This study explored online mentoring dialogues of first-year science teachers (FYSTs) to construct a model that was informed by metaphors in teaching dilemmas. Nine teachers' yearlong threaded dialogues were archived and first analyzed by Windschitl's (2002) four dilemma categories, and later by Lakoff and Johnson's (2003) conceptual metaphor…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Barriers, Beginning Teachers, Science Teachers
Banaruee, Hassan; Khoshsima, Hooshang; Zare-Behtash, Esmail; Yarahmadzehi, Nahid – Cogent Education, 2019
Describing the processes of metaphor comprehension has been a hot topic of discussion among researchers throughout the past four decades. One of the major challenges has been to find a mechanism that can describe the processes involved in the comprehension of various kinds of metaphors. This article suggests that different types of metaphors could…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Reading Comprehension, Concept Formation, Abstract Reasoning
Park, Sophia S.; Tran, Mai-Anh Le; Parker, Angela; Ghali, Adam A.; Helsel, Carolyn B.; Cardoza-Orlandi, Carlos F. – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2019
How is quilt-making both metaphor and pedagogy for early-career faculty of theology and religion who seek to cultivate critical and creative imagination for teaching, and to probe the challenges and promises of complex identities and vocations within 21st-century landscapes of theological education? This forum presents essays (with explanatory…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, College Faculty, Theological Education
Johnson, Alexander A.; Kreuz, Roger J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
Past research has highlighted some differences in how sarcasm is interpreted by different groups of individuals as well as biases in individuals' expectations regarding who is more likely to use it (e.g., occupation, gender). However, examinations of patterns of sarcasm production have been much less frequent. The current research extends past…
Descriptors: Negative Attitudes, Age Differences, Gender Differences, Geographic Regions
?urcan, Alexandra; Howman, Hannah; Filik, Ruth – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
This article addresses a current theoretical debate between modular and interactive accounts of sarcasm processing, by investigating the role of context (specifically, knowing that a character has been sarcastic before) in the comprehension of a sarcastic remark. An eye-tracking experiment was conducted in which participants were asked to read…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Comprehension, Eye Movements, Figurative Language
Engel, Juliane – Ethnography and Education, 2020
The article aims to develop a theory of biographical knowledge and practices of aesthetic articulation. Thus, it examines the aesthetic practices of young people beyond their verbal utterances. Using seven video case studies, it demonstrates the extent to which biographical knowledge is articulated in aesthetic practices -- drawing, dancing,…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Aesthetics, Video Technology, Case Studies
Winter, Bodo; Duffy, Sarah E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Time and space have been shown to be interlinked in people's minds. To what extent can co-speech gestures influence thinking about time, over and above spoken language? In this study, we use the ambiguous question "Next Wednesday's meeting has been moved forward two days, what day is it on now?" to show that people either respond…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Speech Communication, Correlation, Time Perspective