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Cheating Literacy: The Limitations of Simulated Classroom Discourse in Educational Software for Children
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Walton, Marion – Language and Education, 2007
This paper presents a multimodal discourse analysis of children using "drill-and-practice" literacy software at a primary school in the Western Cape, South Africa. The children's interactions with the software are analysed. The software has serious limitations which arise from the global political economy of the educational software…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Computer Software, National Curriculum