When in front of a classroom, skilled teacher can read the room, identifying when students are engaged, frustrated, distracted, etc. In recent years we have seen significant changes traditional with virtual classes becoming normal learning environment. Reasons for this change increased popularity Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and disruptions imposed by ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, ...

This article, examining the qualia roles retrieved from the metaphorically/metonymically used body part terms in news texts, addresses the similarities and differences of such uses in Taiwan and China. Analyzing the behavior of xue ‘blood’ and ‘bone’, two corporeal terms with relatively high visibilities compared with rou ‘flesh’ and mai ‘meridian’ (Duann and Huang 2015) in the Chinese Gigaword...