Keywords
language
language adquisition
language as a teaching tool
learning
neuroscience
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Abstract
This paper documents the importance of figurative and metaphoric language as a tool for analysis and reasoning. Teaching figurative language should be an essential component of subject matter learning, as well as of other school activities. Given the social and cognitive capacities promoted by language, it must be a key dimension of education. This paper also examines the importance of metaphoric and creative use of language from a neurobiological perspective, and psychological and neurolinguistic fields. Learning figurative language gives way to student‘s thinking characterized by the construction of unique, critical and spontaneous ideas.
How to cite:
Álvarez-Pérez, H. J. (2011). El lenguaje como centro de la escolarización: Una visión desde la perspectiva de la neurobiología. Pedagogía, 44(1), 213-222. Retrieved from https://revistas.upr.edu/index.php/educacion/article/view/16568
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