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Yilmaz Soysal – Science & Education, 2024
This multiple case study describes error-reaction patterns (ERPs) in middle school science lessons. Twenty-seven science teachers' reactions to student errors were explored in terms of four aspects of classroom discourse: talk move, discursive purpose, communicative approach, and patterns of interaction. Two hundred ninety-six error-reaction…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Stein Dankert Kolstø; Matthias G. Stadler – Science Education, 2025
This study contributes to discussions on facilitating students' sense-making in science by analyzing the utterances of high-achieving students in dialogues during practical work and identifying characteristics of their language use and learning processes. The context of the study is a general science course at an upper secondary school in Norway.…
Descriptors: Science Education, Classroom Communication, Language Usage, Dialogs (Language)
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Mónica González Ybarra; Grace D. Player – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2024
Women of Color feminists have theorized and pointed to the ways that chisme is a resistant practice for Women and Girls of Color. In line with this theoretical and epistemological framing of chisme, the authors explore the ways that gossip is, in fact, an intellectual and political literacy practice that Women and Girls of Color utilize in the…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Sex Role, Personal Autonomy, Resistance (Psychology)
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Carroll, James Edward – Teaching History, 2016
Jim Carroll noticed basic literacy errors in his Year 13s' writing, but on closer examination decided that these were not best addressed purely as literacy issues. Through an intervention based on clauses, Carroll managed to enable his students to write better, but he did this by teasing out principles of historical discourse that underpin…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Discourse Analysis, History, Grammar
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Bossé, Michael J.; Bayaga, Anass; Fountain, Catherine; Lynch-Davis, Kathleen; Preston, Ron; Adu-Gyamfi, Kwaku – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2018
This study applies the Mathematics Acquisition Framework (MAF) (Bossé, Ringler, Bayaga, Fountain, & Young, 2018) to investigate fifth- through seventh-grade students' comprehension of fractions and decimals and examines how students build understanding of mathematical principles and concepts regarding fractions and decimals. Based on case…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Yunis, Melor Md; Haris, Siti Nor Fatimah – International Education Studies, 2014
This paper investigates the use of discourse markers among Form Four second language learner (SLL) students in essay writing. The objectives of this study are to discover how Form Four SLL students use discourse markers in their essay writing and to identify the teachers' perception about the usage of discourse markers among students. 30…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Essays, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Loke, Darina Lokeman; Ali, Juliana; Anthony, Norin Norain Zulkifli – English Language Teaching, 2013
This article presents a corpus-based investigation on English prepositions of time presented in the argumentative essays of Form 4 and Form 5 Malaysian secondary students in the MCSAW corpus. The aims were to find out the distribution patterns and the common errors in the use of preposition of time, "on" and "at". This corpus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)