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Smith, Ethan P. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2021
This report details a literacy affordance framework for describing and connecting the ways in which teachers focus their students on the syntactic structures of reading, writing, speaking, and listening in mathematics. This framework is intended to serve as a critical access point for connecting and moving broader research in secondary mathematics…
Descriptors: Semantics, Secondary School Students, Syntax, Teacher Student Relationship
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Martin, J. R. – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2013
This paper takes as point of departure the register variable field, and explores its application to the discourse of History and Biology in secondary school classrooms from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics. In particular it considers the functions of technicality and abstraction in these subject specific discourses, and their…
Descriptors: Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Writing (Composition), Literacy
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Liu, Yu; Vadeboncoeur, Jennifer A. – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2010
Based on sociocultural theory, this article examines two activities constituted by a parent and child as jointly constructed bi-literacy practices. Bi-literacy practices enable the parent and child to co-construct conceptual meanings and sense across two languages. Concept development in young children "begins" with meaning in one language and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Metacognition, Parent Child Relationship, Concept Formation
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Albers, Peggy; Frederick, Tammy; Cowan, Kay – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2009
How do primary students construct understandings of the opposite sex? In what ways do these constructions manifest in the visual texts created in literacy and language arts classrooms? Using visual discourse analysis (Albers, 2007) and scheme analysis (Sonesson, 1988) as interpretive methods, we analyzed the visual texts created by 23 third grade…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Semantics, Language Arts, Reader Text Relationship
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Bracewell, Robert J. – Written Communication, 1999
Treats, in a systematic and principled manner, representations studied in situated literacy and an associated methodological approach based on semantic analysis that characterizes the representations. Illustrates application of the method for four situated-literacy examples: mother/child word-naming games; children's story writing; journalistic…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis
Payne, David, Ed. – Notes on Linguistics, 1999
The 1999 issues of "Notes on Linguistics," published quarterly, include the following articles, review articles, reviews, book notices, and reports: "A New Program for Doing Morphology: Hermit Crab"; "Lingualinks CD-ROM: Field Guide to Recording Language Data"; "'Unruly' Phonology: An Introduction to Optimality Theory"; "Borrowing vs. Code…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Arabic, Canada Natives, Code Switching (Language)