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Bastian Bunzeck; Holger Diessel – First Language, 2025
In a seminal study, Cameron-Faulkner et al. made two important observations about utterance-level constructions in English child-directed speech (CDS). First, they observed that canonical in/transitive sentences are surprisingly infrequent in child-direct speech (given that SVO word order is often thought to play a key role in the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Speech Habits, Speech Communication
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Jenny M. Hellgren; Ewa Bergqvist; Magnus Österholm – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
Argumentation is a key skill in most school subjects and academic disciplines, including mathematics and science. It is possible that similarities and differences between how argumentation is expressed in different subjects can contribute to, or disrupt, students' transferrable argumentation skills. The purpose of this study is therefore to…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, College Mathematics