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I used this metaphor in an attempt to help my students write better thesis statements and signpost their text more effectively. I told them they are like a tour guide telling the toursits (readers) where the guide would take them but they also need to be holding a map while listening to the tour guide to help them better imagine their journey. The map was what I compared to the structure/ outline of the essay.

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Buying a used laptop on the internet (thinking of questions to ask ourselves to avoid getting tricked) - the questioning process can then be applied to selecting sources for essays

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Using Lego (in pre-Covid times) for students to build their own metaphors

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Using Lego (in pre-Covid times) for students to build their own metaphors

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of essay structure, course structure, cultural assumptions

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Research as a journey - planning, checking the best/most up-to-date/relevant information, comparing, making notes, deciding where to go etc

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If visual metaphors are used regularly and consistently to introduce concepts in the programme, the images alone can be used as a mnemonic device when it comes to reviewing - i.e. show them the Mona Lisa and get them to explain the concept behind it.

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If visual metaphors are used regularly and consistently to introduce concepts in the programme, the images alone can be used as a mnemonic device when it comes to reviewing - i.e. show them the Mona Lisa and get them to explain the concept behind it.

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metaphor for interlinked frameworks that support each other - for developing research

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Ask students what an essay is like. They come up with things like japanese garden, climbing a mountain etc. Intro idea of essay as a bridge and get them to discuss the issues with these essays

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A river to illustrate the idea of flow which is then connected to cohesion and coherence in writing.

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White elephant as a metophor to talk about something existing but it could be useless. This more a metaphor in English-speaking discourse rather than in other cultures.

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I find the text as a world metaphor  really powerful 

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I find the text as a world metaphor  really powerful 

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Rear view, re-cycling, open road, spiral, "the five blind men studying an elephant" parable

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Using a planet system to introduce Halliday's system of transitivity on a third year undergraduate discourse and translation course.

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It takes time to transform from a melon to a pumpkin

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Sandwich metaphor used as a way of describing paragraph structure - other food and cooking metaphors

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Sandwich metaphor used as a way of describing paragraph structure - other food and cooking metaphors

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Academic writing includes "everyday" metaphors in the sense that the reporting verbs are speech acts (e.g. argue, comment, suggest, etc.) - so it is in itself metaphorical

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research is digging because the truth is hidden.

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research is digging because the truth is hidden.

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dig in, get into it, come up with something

Yes, and the truth is buried at times.  In initial research we scratch the surface, and so it goes. As Lakoff and Johnson - and so many others - have shown, and language reveals, it is a coherent system of metaphor that we access that shapes our communication, but more profound ly (pun intended!) our thought.

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Reflecting on learning, teaching, perceptions of 

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Reflecting on learning, teaching, perceptions of 

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An idea to include at the intial stages of the course - students finish the sentences: 'Learning is like...' Teaching is like...' Encourages discussion on perceptions of learnng, teaching, different approaches, learner autonomy

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Four compass points represent four sources they've read and they position themselves

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Engineering metaphor - squeezing lemons (sources) to really wring out the information in the source.

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Engineering metaphor - squeezing lemons (sources) to really wring out the information in the source.

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eg viewing a statue from the sides and back, not just the front; or a strange object you come across outside

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Using trees as reflective metaphors and metaphors for learning is something I've been playing around with recently!

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Hi everybody, please post any interesting ideas for using metaphor in EAP from your group on this wall for everybody to see. Feel free to comment on others' contributions too ... Thanks

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Hi everybody, please post any interesting ideas for using metaphor in EAP from your group on this wall for everybody to see. Feel free to comment on others' contributions too ... Thanks