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Peer reviewedLazar, Rhea Tregabov; And Others – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1989
This examination of the frequency of occurrence of multiple meaning expressions in the oral speech of teachers found that such expressions as indirect requests, idioms, similes, metaphors, and irony were used in about 36 percent of all utterances by two different teachers at each grade level from K-eight. Implications for language-impaired…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary Education, Figurative Language, Junior High Schools
