Examination of metaphors formed by fifth grade primary school students over history subjects by using discourse analysis technique

Metaphors which are the most effective vehicles for understanding and explaining the cognitive process are the strong meaning expressions that we refer frequently. Metaphors which are being compared one situation to the other and eliciting the settlement of memory by frequent repetitions in this process, supply a strong reference for new learnings while they supply effective and permonen learning environments for the students with the help of active memory.Metaphors that contain individuals? past experiences and creativity linked together in their construction, take place often in discourses which are practical forms in building a language, The metaphors which take place along their theoritical frameworks in discourses where the information is produced and constructed have an important role in the linkage of the socio-cultural content. During the production of metaphors, discourses enrich and strengthen students? cognitive process while they ease new formation with its linguistic and syntactical structure. Consequently, İn this research, İt?s aimed to be examined with expression analysis tecnique , the metaphors produced by fifth grade students over the historical subjects in Social Sciences Course.In the study, datas were collected in written form from 427 fifth grade primary school students from 5 different primary schools in Çanakkale city center, the interviews made with specified students and the observation reports of these students in Social Sciences Course.The study is a state establishment with a descriptional quality and analysis was made through qualitative research techniques basically.Result of Metaphors which are obtained data analysis, İt?s seen that student?s past life and / socio-cultural environments are paralel. Furthermore, it? also seen that metaphors take place in discourses are new creation in the classroom. As a result of metaphors that examining the content analysis tecnique, 10 different coding was obtained and while seeing generated code of each student on their own experiences with the details, it?s been seen the metaphor of teaching learning process in this direction, a positive effect and the student in this process actively involved in the matter.According to the research objectives of the sub, female students created more metaphors than male students and it?s found that ÖKİÖO students created more metaphors in the research sample of five primary schools. As a result of finding results, metaphor was used as a tool in education for providing significant learning. Richness of student?s life is enriched with active learning tecniques. Using classroom discourse as an effective and controlled, students have been gained a different perspective with metaphors and in textbooks, as an example of metaphorical expressios were made suggestion.