id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_qlvagmhdwfch3hepylhuhgothi Stefania Manca Learners' Representation of their Affective Domain through Figurative Language in a Web‐Based Learning Environment 2007 35 .pdf application/pdf 8525 704 57 figurative language in a web-based learning environment This study investigated how the participants of an online learning course employed figurative language to express their emotions and feelings during the learning experience. expression of emotions and the affective domain in web-based learning environments has not The use of figurative language in this web-based course communicate their learning experience, to give voice to their emotions, perceptions and feelings, main characteristic of metaphor and figurative language in the expression of emotions. out of 843 postings (10.20%) contained original uses of figurative language and they were figurative language postings marked by the presence of three positive peaks. Statistical analysis showed a variation in the use of figurative language in the presence of represented their perceptions of the learning context, through the use of figurative language. figurative language in a web-based learning environment, Computers in Human Figurative language in emotional communication. ./cache/work_qlvagmhdwfch3hepylhuhgothi.pdf ./txt/work_qlvagmhdwfch3hepylhuhgothi.txt