This paper offers an approach to analyzing political rhetoric in videogames intended to carry ideological bias, based on cognitive linguist George Lakoff’s notion of metaphor and frame as the principle organizers or political discourse. I then argue for three ways games function in relation to ideological frames: reinforcement, contestation, and exposition through examples of political games (T...

The process of gastrulation is a pivotal step in the formation of the vertebrate body plan. The primary function of gastrulation is the correct placement of precursor tissues for subsequent morphogenesis. There is now mounting evidence that the body plan is established through inductive interactions between germ layer tissues and by the global patterning activity emanating from embryonic organi...

Program Committee John Collins (University of Minnesota, USA) Shaheen Fatima (University of Loughborough, UK) Enrico Gerding (University of Southampton, UK) Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) Amy Greenwald (Brown University, USA) Gordan Jezic (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Patrick R. Jordan (Microso, USA) Wolf Ketter (RSM Erasmus University, Netherlands) Christopher Kiekintveld (Univer...

This study investigated 1) whether the effect of teacher-developed graphic organizers vis-à-vis student-developed ones was more significant on improving intermediate EFL learners’ writing, and 2) whether the use of both graphic organizers had any impact on their writing. The participants were selected in two stages: 130 students sat for a piloted proficiency test. Those who scored above half of...