The effect of analogy instruction on young children's metaphor comprehension.

From: Roeper Review | Date: September 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Analogy instruction improves young students' abilities to interpret metaphors. Children who received such instruction translated more metaphors correctly and offered a larger number of other possible explanations than children who did not. Instruction in analogy also enhances students' abilities to recognize relationships and incorporate new information.

Analogies and metaphors are creative and powerful tools for assimilating new information and fitting it into one's existing knowledge base. This study explored the role of analogy in enhancing the ability of young gifted children to ...

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