Unearthing Metaphors: Figurativeness in Teacher-Child Talk About Soil and Related Matters |
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| Authors: | Niklas Pramling |
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| Institution: | 1.Department of Education, The Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction, and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society (LinCS),University of Gothenburg,G?teborg,Sweden |
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| Abstract: | This article reports an empirical study of an important but under-studied feature of learning practices with young children:
the use of metaphors and other kinds of figurative language. The data consist of video-recordings of children (3–5 years old)
and their teacher engaged in thematic work about soil. The analysis revealed that the teacher and the children use a rich
repertoire of communicative tools of a figurative kind to carry out a number of important functions, such as describing, explaining,
and visualising phenomena. Some important questions to pursue in future studies of young children’s learning are proposed. |
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