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Kotsalas, Ioannis P.; Antoniou, Anna; Scoullos, Michael – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2017
A fundamental objective of environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) is the promotion of critical thinking, through which learners could resist messages (e.g., from TV), leading to unsustainable lifestyles and practices. The analysis of messages from media was used for: identifying influencing techniques;…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Mass Media Use, Environmental Education, Social Media
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Papafragou, Anna; Selimis, Stathis – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
It is well known that languages differ in how they encode motion. Languages such as English use verbs that communicate the manner of motion (e.g., "slide", "skip"), while languages such as Greek regularly encode motion paths in verbs (e.g., "enter", "ascend"). Here we ask how such cross-linguistic encoding…
Descriptors: Verbs, Linguistics, Motion, English