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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"discourse community"”.
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How a Master Teacher Uses Questioning Within a Mathematical Discourse Community
… communication among the members of the classroom community, or supports learning with understanding, it becomes what I term a productive discourse community. The purpose of this study is to find out what a teacher does to create and maintain a productive discourse community where students can …
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An African American discourse community in Black & White: the New Orleans Tribune
In An African American Discourse Community in Black & White: The New Orleans Tribune, an archival study of the first black-owned daily newspaper in the United States, I argue that the newspaper rhetorically constructed a literate African American discourse community worthy of citizenship and equal …
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Gaining Admission to the Medical Discourse Community: The Importance of Method Within Homeopathic Research
… of homeopathy. Furthermore, I regard the discourse community of homeopathy and the struggles it undergoes in seeking admission into mainstream medicine. Following my research is the conclusion that the aim of homeopathic research has drifted from an integrated model to a pluralistic one, …
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Words and Waves: Ecological Dialogism as an Approach to Discourse, Community, and Marine Renewable Energy in Orkney
… explores how relationships between the local community in Orkney and the Marine Renewable Energy sector are enacted through discourse; exploring how, through the embodied process of relating, individual and shared narratives emerge which shape understanding and behaviour.<br/>Adopting …
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The Effects of a Discourse Community Model on Promoting Intentional Conceptual Change to Increase Understanding of School Climate and Its Importance
… theory, this study looked at the effects of a discourse community model on promoting intentional conceptual change to increase understanding of school climate and its importance. A highly-motivated group of 11 teachers from one elementary school participated in this discourse community designed …
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A Corpus-Driven Study of Discourse Communities in Applied Linguistics in Turkiye and the United States
… approach. Drawing on 200 theses (100 from each discourse community), the research reveals how the linguistic features reflect the diverse academic conventions of different district discourse communities. The findings highlight how discourse community members in the U.S favor assertive markers to …
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The language of the sea: a corpus driven examination of the influence of Britain's maritime tradition on standard English
… their source. This study examines the ideas of discourse communities as defined by Swales (1999) and Teubert (2005; 2007) and how discourse is negotiated by its members. The study aims to describe the process by which the highly specialised language of the very specific discourse community of …
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The Effect of Purposeful Mathematics Discourse in the Classroom on Students’ Mathematics Language in the Context of Problem Solving
… in the classroom, as well as the effect the discourse and language use had on students’ individual written solutions while working on word problems. Inductive coding for themes revealed that the teacher’s purposeful use of oral mathematical language had a positive impact on students’ written …
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Learning the language of academic engineering: Sociocognitive writing in graduate students
… effective written argumentation and disciplinary discourse. Further, graduate student attrition averages 57% across all disciplines, with some studies classifying up to 50% of these students as “ABD” (All But Dissertation.) In engineering disciplines specifically, graduate attrition rates across …
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THE LITERACIES OF LITERARY TEXTS: RHETORICAL BRIDGES BETWEEN ENGLISH STUDIES DISCIPLINES AND FIRST-YEAR WRITERS
… to blend rhetoric, composition, and literary discourses to illustrate how the subfields may engage in interdisciplinary collaboration and conversation. These conversations are important. For English studies to remain relevant in an increasingly business-minded model of higher education, …
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Imitation: A classical art for modern composition
… instruction, offers students the benefits of a discourse community that stretches from Aristotle to Stephen King The arrangement of imitation in a taxonomy directs students through specific steps toward the goal of originality. This taxonomy employs textual models, such as the progymnasmata, and …
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Establishing a Unified Model of Academic Literacy and a Method for Measuring Academic Readiness
… the student to gain membership in the university discourse community. As a construct which requires membership within the academic discourse community, academic literacy entails communicative competence. Researchers have found that academic writing is primarily composed of tasks which engage …
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Social pressure to speak English and the effect of English language learning for ESL composition students in higher education
… plans on being a lifelong member of any English community of practice. Pressures on these students to converge to English occur because of the faulty notions that make the basis of current language policies. This study looks at the implications of the pressure to converge within two sections of …
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Cancel culture: posthuman hauntologies in digital rhetoric and the latent values of virtual community networks
… how modern epideictic practices enact latent community values by analyzing modern call-out culture, a form of public shaming that aims to hold individuals responsible for perceived politically incorrect behavior via social media, and cancel culture, a boycott of such behavior and a variant of …
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Merging corpus linguistics and collaborative knowledge construction
This study relates corpus-driven discourse analysis to the concept of collaborative knowledge construction. It demonstrates that the traditional synchronic perspective of meaning in corpus linguistics needs to be complemented by a diachronic dimension. The fundamental assumption underlying this …
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Analysis of English language errors in the writing of second year students in a Ghanaian university
… effectively and succeed in an academic discourse community, a student requires sufficient competence in the use of the English language, which is the medium of instruction in universities across Ghana. However, it is observable that most of the students’ writing in the English language …
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A corpus-based investigation of the phraseology in various genres of written English with applications to the teaching of English for academic purposes
… serve many functions in written academic discourse. Their use helps the writer to generate idiomatic text which meets the expectations of the reader and shows clearly the writer's discourse community. Prefabs also enable the configuration of writer's stance more explicitly. At the same …
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