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Yu, Betty; Sterponi, Laura – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this clinical focus article was to illustrate the potential of employing conversation analysis (CA) as a method for assessing social communication that is neurodiversity affirming. Method: This clinical focus article will provide an overview of CA and explain how it offers a theoretically grounded means of analyzing…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Speech Language Pathology, Evaluation Methods
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Kadhum, Mariam Fouad; Abbas, Nawal Fadhil – Arab World English Journal, 2021
The present study attempts to examine verbal/nonverbal impoliteness in the classroom interaction and outside it in one of the movies, namely, "The Marva Collins." Impoliteness, which is significantly studied within pragmatics, is a negative attitude towards particular behaviors. It always presumes to have emotional concerns for at least…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Case Studies, Interpersonal Competence, Models
Demszky, Dorottya; Liu, Jing; Mancenido, Zid; Cohen, Julie; Hill, Heather C.; Jurafsky, Dan; Hashimoto, Tatsunori – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
In conversation, "uptake" happens when a speaker builds on the contribution of their interlocutor by, for example, acknowledging, repeating or reformulating what they have said. In education, teachers' uptake of student contributions has been linked to higher student achievement. Yet measuring and improving teachers' uptake at scale is…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Teacher Student Relationship, Discourse Analysis, Measurement Techniques
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Vogels, Jorrig; Lindgren, Josefin – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
When telling a story, a speaker needs to refer to story characters using appropriate expressions, which requires a mental model of the discourse. We hypothesize that, compared to those of adults, children's discourse models are based more on factors that are less cognitively demanding, such as animacy, and as they grow older, discourse factors…
Descriptors: Swedish, Preschool Children, Discourse Analysis, Cues
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Ossewaarde, Roelant; Jonkers, Roel; Jalvingh, Fedor; Bastiaanse, Roelien – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Corpus analyses of spontaneous language fragments of varying length provide useful insights in the language change caused by brain damage, such as caused by some forms of dementia. Sample size is an important experimental parameter to consider when designing spontaneous language analyses studies. Sample length influences the confidence…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Dementia, Computational Linguistics, Neurological Impairments
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D'Mello, Sidney K.; Southwell, Rosy; Gregg, Julie – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
We propose that machine-learned computational models (MLCMs), in which the model parameters and perhaps even structure are learned from data, can complement extant approaches to the study of text and discourse. Such models are particularly useful when theoretical understanding is insufficient, when the data are rife with nonlinearities and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Computer Software, Intervention, Computational Linguistics
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Milawati; Suryati, Nunung; Rohmah, Dewi Wardah Mazidatur – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study presents the informal formative assessment practice embedded in teacher-students interaction in daily teaching activities. Although many previous studies claimed as informal formative assessment, the adequate information on how informal formative assessment integrated in EFL classroom interaction in the higher education level was not…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Andersen, Erin M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation will broaden the purview of recent scholarship pertaining to socially just writing assessments by making connections among assemblage theory and materialism, studies of ecological and anti-racist assessments, and studies of writing center work, to ground theoretical conversations in everyday practices. Focusing on systemic…
Descriptors: Feminism, Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Discourse Analysis
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Mendick, Heather; Berge, Maria; Danielsson, Anna – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2017
In this article, we develop critiques of the pipeline model which dominates Western science education policy, using discourse analysis of interviews with two Swedish young women focused on "identity work". We argue that it is important to unpack the ways that the pipeline model fails to engage with intersections of gender, ethnicity,…
Descriptors: Criticism, STEM Education, Neoliberalism, Case Studies
Ronen, Ilana – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2015
A qualitative research focused on a case study aiming to monitor emergent knowledge in a discourse group by tracking the development of the concept "goal." The analysis, based on "Semiotic Evolution" methodology facilitates the description of interactions between personal perceptions in the group discourse, illustrating the…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Case Studies, Qualitative Research, Discourse Communities
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Waight, Noemi; Liu, Xiufeng; Gregorius, Roberto Ma. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2015
This paper examined the nuances of the background process of design and development and follow up classroom implementation of computer-based models for high school chemistry. More specifically, the study examined the knowledge contributions of an interdisciplinary team of experts; points of tensions, negotiations and non-negotiable aspects of…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Models, Secondary School Science, Chemistry
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Becher, Ayelet; Orland-Barak, Lily – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2016
This study suggests an integrative qualitative methodological framework for capturing complexity in mentoring activity. Specifically, the model examines how historical developments of a discipline direct mentors' mediation of professional knowledge through the language that they use. The model integrates social activity theory and a framework of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Discourse Analysis, Art Education, Teaching Methods
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Whiteside, Aimee L. – Online Learning, 2015
This study explores the level of "social presence" or connectedness, in two iterations of a 13-month, graduate-level certificate program designed to help K-12 school leaders integrate technology in their districts. Vygotsky's Social Development Theory serves as the theoretical lens for this programmatic research. The methods include a…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Blended Learning, Graduate Study, Social Development
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Liu, Chien-Jen; Yang, Shu Ching – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2014
This study used the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model proposed by Garrison to investigate students' level of knowledge construction in asynchronous discussions. The participants included 36 senior students (27 males) majoring in information management. The students attended 18 weeks of an online information ethics course. In this study, four types…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Technical Institutes, Communities of Practice, Inquiry
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Curwood, Jen Scott – Journal of Literacy Research, 2014
Prompted by calls for research on technology-focused professional development, this ethnographic case study investigates how teachers' participation in learning communities may influence technology integration within the secondary English curriculum. In this article, I draw on educational psychology, cognitive anthropology, and sociolinguistics to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, Communities of Practice
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