Elementary School Students’ Understanding of Metaphors
This paper aims to describe the development of children’s understanding of metaphors and the type of part-whole relationships they are capable of establishing when solving puzzles. The study was carried out with 30 students from a federal elementary school in the state of Querétaro, Mexico: 10 secon...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA |
| Repositorio: | Revista Electrónica de Investigacion Educativa |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.redie.uabc.mx:article/1108 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/1108 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Cognición lenguaje comprensión metáforas. |
| Sumario: | This paper aims to describe the development of children’s understanding of metaphors and the type of part-whole relationships they are capable of establishing when solving puzzles. The study was carried out with 30 students from a federal elementary school in the state of Querétaro, Mexico: 10 second-year students, 10 fourth-year students and 10 sixth-year students. They were asked to answer four metaphorical puzzles and explain what information they had taken into account to arrive at their answers. The results show that: a) children’s understanding of metaphors increases with their school year, and b) participants from higher years tend to establish more comprehensive and coherent part-whole relationships than students from lower years, which allows them to better understand metaphors in puzzles. The results confirm findings by Calderón (2012) and Calderón, Vernon and Carrillo (2012). |
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