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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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MacPhail, Ann; Schaefer, Lee – Sport, Education and Society, 2020
Acknowledging differences in contexts, the purpose of this paper considers how physical education and sport pedagogy (PESP), while maintaining our collective identity, can most effectively develop a capacity to engage with academic and institutional changes in productive, proactive ways. This, we contend, entails considering extending the groups…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Educational Change, Kinesiology
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Zajaczkowska, Maria; Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Kim, Christina S. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Mentalising has long been suggested to play an important role in irony interpretation. We hypothesised that another important cognitive underpinning of irony interpretation is likely to be children's capacity for mental set switching -- the ability to switch flexibly between different approaches to the same task. We experimentally manipulated…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Task Analysis, Children, Language Acquisition
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Zettersten, Martin; Schonberg, Christina; Lupyan, Gary – First Language, 2020
This article reviews two aspects of human learning: (1) people draw inferences that appear to rely on hierarchical conceptual representations; (2) some categories are much easier to learn than others given the same number of exemplars, and some categories remain difficult despite extensive training. Both of these results are difficult to reconcile…
Descriptors: Models, Language Acquisition, Prediction, Language Processing
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Olsen, Joe; Lew, Kristen; Weber, Keith – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2020
The metaphors that students form and encounter have been shown to exert a powerful influence on how they think about mathematics. In this paper, we explore the linguistic metaphors about learning and doing mathematics that were prevalent in 11 advanced mathematics lectures. We present four metaphor clusters that were common in the corpus that we…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Mathematics Instruction, Figurative Language, Computational Linguistics
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Lawrence, Randee Lipson – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2020
As an adult educator for more than 30 years, I have always searched for ways to incorporate creative expression into my teaching practice through engaged pedagogy and student assignments. My major influences came not from educational sources but from the art world and from natural surroundings. In the early 1990's I discovered New Brunswick-based…
Descriptors: Artists, Art Products, Photography, Painting (Visual Arts)
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