PhD defence Patricia Pineda
Tuesday 15 September at 11:45, Patricia Pineda defends her PhD thesis Looking for and making sense of ‘special’ words. Metaphor recognition and interpretation by schoolchildren in the aula of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Main Building). Prof. dr. Gerard Steen is the promoter of Patricia’s thesis.
Patricia explored metaphor recognition and interpretation by 8 to 12 years-old children in literary and science text fragments. Her findings show an independent effect of school grade and reading comprehension, with children scoring considerably higher on interpretation than on recognition of metaphors.