Kompetencje metaforyczne uczniów w wieku wczesnoszkolnym

• Authors: Justyna Sala-Suszyńska

Abstracts

EN

The ability to understand and produce metaphors is thought to reflect an individual’s cognitive level, creativity, abstract reasoning ability and linguistic competence. Unlike early emerging language forms whose acquisition is complete by the time children enter school, the understanding and use metaphors steadily improve throughout childhood, adolescence and into adulthood. Measures od metaphoric competence thus provide a measure of children’s developing conceptual and linguistic abilities throughout the school years (Friemoth, Kamhi 2001: 476). It has been suggested that child metaphors are a reflection on the language of an underlying transfer of knowledge from one conceptual domain to another similar to the kind of transfer of knowledge occurring in adults. Such a view of metaphor is consistent with domain-specific theories of conceptual development which claim that children begin by acquiring knowledge in a few domains which is later differentiated or transferred to other domains (Vosniadou 1986: 52). In the article, I want to present types of metaphors, theories of conceptual development of children and metaphoric competence. Moreover, I emphasize the teacher’s role in forming linguistic competence of pupils.

Keywords

EN

metaphoric competence; metaphors; primary education; pupils; teachers

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Międzynarodowych i Edukacji Humanum
• Journal: Społeczeństwo i Edukacja. Międzynarodowe Studia Humanistyczne
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 4(19)
• Pages: 201-210

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Justyna Sala-Suszyńska

• Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie Wydział Pedagogiki i Psychologii, Instytut Pedagogiki

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2157727