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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Legitimation Code Theory (LCT)"”.
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A sociosemantic examination of secondary English teacher written feedback
… from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) in order to discover the various meanings that teachers make through their commenting practices. The findings of the study show that teacher comments focus on the content of the student writing, but also, …
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Writer performance ranges on the NBT Academic Literacy Test: an analysis through a Semantics lens
Karl Maton argues that Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) not only allows knowledge practices to be seen and analysed; it also brings them into relation with the analysis of students themselves. In other words, it views educational experiences as an outcome of the dispositions brought by actors to a …
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The epistemic properties in a typical engineering science course and its relation to student success: a case study
… density) which is one of the dimensions of Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) developed by Karl Maton. The analysis of the data uncovered two main issues. Firstly, there is a wide semantic range in the required knowledge and skills in order for the students to be successful in the course. …
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The nature of professional reasoning: An analysis of design in the engineering curriculum
… was done using the semantics dimension of Legitimation Code Theory, LCT (Semantics), which required an adaptation in order to fully describe the significance of contextual detail evident in the data. The findings showed that specialised knowledge and contextual detail interact far more …
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An analysis of how knowledge is differentiated in a vocationally based curriculum for a new profession
… practice. The analysis calls upon Maton’s (2000) Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), specifically LCT Semantics, to explore meanings in curriculum texts in order to identify different types of knowledge. In using LCT Semantics, conceptual and practice-based knowledge is identified and graded according …
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Senior secondary English in New South Wales: Linguistic and epistemic perspectives
… mutually informing account of subject English in theory and practice. Drawing on three data sources – the Rationale of the Stage 6 English syllabus, five student examination responses, and classroom and interview data – the linguistic and epistemic requirements of subject English are explored, …
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Trials and tribunals: consensus seeking in course design approval in Higher Education
… realism this study applies Bourdieu’s field theory to identify the field of HE as the object of study and curriculum development, as a form of academic development, as a subfield. Bernstein’s code theory and the pedagogic device are applied to develop an external language of description for …
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Multilingual teacher-talk in Secondary school classrooms in Yola, North-East Nigeria: Exploring the interface of language and knowledge using legitimation code theory and terminology theory
… studies on multilingual talk, as illustrated by code switching in the classroom, have been repetitive and descriptive, and have for a while not been underpinned by substantially new or different questions (Lin, 2013:15). First, many of the studies in the literature have, for instance, concluded …