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Quintana, Inostroza, Víctor Vásquez, Tania Tagle, Claudio Díaz and Paola Alarcón. 2019. Map, Foundations, Recipe, Burden: Teachers’ Conceptual Metaphors on Lesson Planning. DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 35 (4) : 1–22. 22 pp. URL
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Abstract

The paper explores the way Chilean teachers conceptualize lesson planning, and, in particular what domain they would employ to describe it. A number of 54 Chilean teachers from different schools took part in the research by filling in a questionnaire. The Conceptual Metaphor theory (Lakoff & Johnson 1980) is used as the theoretical framework and the tool for analyzing the data. The qualitative analysis revealed four prevailing metaphor categories: Map, Foundations, Instruction and Burden. These metaphorical categories are indicative of what the participants think of lesson plans, reflecting their personal beliefs, emotions and experiences.