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Akman, Özkan; Açikgöz, Bedriye – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
Metaphor is a tool that helps us perceive the world by expressing more than word art. Metaphors are used in certain areas of education. It appears in different ways in the fields of literature, philosophy, sociology, educational sciences, social studies. Teachers also tell concrete and abstract data through metaphors to make it easier to keep in…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Figurative Language, Cognitive Processes, Phenomenology
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Dilekli, Yalçin – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2019
New world needs thinking generation. However, growing thinking generation is very difficult because there are many discrepancies in defining of thinking and thinking skills. Without defining thinking and its dimensions, it is nearly impossible to grow such generation. For having thinking generation, thinking and its dimensions should be described.…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Turkish, Literature, Databases
Aydin, Burcu – Online Submission, 2017
In an English Foreign Language learning context, where access to native like use of metaphorical language is limited, gaining this ability becomes challenging. For many years, foreign language educators didn't pay much attention to idiomatic language and assumed that idioms could only be taught through rote learning. For this reason, they face…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction