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Metaphors and gestures for abstract concepts in academic English writing.
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Metaphors and gestures for abstract concepts in academic English writing./
作者:
Zhao, Jun.
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236 p.
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Adviser: Linda Waugh.
Contained By:
Dissertation Abstracts International68-06A.
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Education, Bilingual and Multicultural. -
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9780549071747
Metaphors and gestures for abstract concepts in academic English writing.
Zhao, Jun.
Metaphors and gestures for abstract concepts in academic English writing.
- 236 p.
Adviser: Linda Waugh.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 2007.
Gestures and metaphors are important mediational tools to materialize abstract conventions in the conceptual development process (Lantolf and Thorne, 2006): metaphors are used in the educational setting to simplify abstract knowledge for learners (Ungerer and Schmidt, 1996; Wee, 2005); gestures, through visual representation, can "provide additional insights into how humans conceptualize abstract concepts via metaphors" (Mittelberg, in press, p. 23).
ISBN: 9780549071747Subjects--Topical Terms:
626653
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This study observed and videotaped four composition instructors and 54 ESL students at an American university to probe how their metaphorical expressions and gestures in a variety of naturally occurring settings, such as classroom teaching, student-teacher conferencing, peer reviewing and student presentations, represent the abstract rhetorical conventions of academic writing in English. By associating students' gestures with the instructors' metaphors and gestures, this study found evidence for the assistive roles of metaphors and gestures in the learning process. The final interviews elicited students' metaphors of academic writing in English and in their first languages. The interviewees were also asked to reflect upon the effectiveness of the metaphors and gestures they were exposed to.
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