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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"discourse practices"”.
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Literacy Potentials: Agency, Embodiment, And Hybridity In Cesar Chavez's Discourse Practices
… of literacies. The project explores Chávez's discourse genealogy through the first thirty-five years of his life in order to define lifeworld Discourse as an emergent hybridity that accounts for one's capacity to act based on one's history of sedimented literacy practices. The project also …
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Implementing Reform: The Changing Cultures and Discourse Practices of Four First -Grade Classrooms
… picture of the classroom norms and classroom discourse practices in traditional versus reform-oriented mathematics classrooms. Toward this goal, four first-grade teachers were followed one week in each of two years as they attempted to implement a reform-based mathematics curriculum, Math …
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Discourse, Practices and Historical Representations in Two Guerrilla Groups: the Eln and the Mpla, Colombia-Angola, 1956-1986
… of historical representations. In the form of discourses and practices, the ELN and the MPLA constituted historical representations with the purpose of building new political imaginaries, in whose analysis it is possible to explain features such as the structures of power, knowledge and …
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The politics of English : a study of classroom discourses in a township school
This is an ethnographic study, which investigates discourse practices in English subject classrooms at Mziwethu Senior Secondary, a Western Cape township high school, where the subject is taught as a second language. The data were collected between October 1997 and March 1999. Working within a …
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Grief Narratology In The Digital Age: Writing The Self In Academic Spaces
… paper examines some of the prescriptive writing practices associated with both grief narratives and academic writing and how those constraints work to constrain and contain stories and writing genres that run counter to dominant, heteronormative paradigms. This process of exclusion and …
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A Feminist Approach to Understanding ESL Identity Development: A Case Study of Korean Women in U.S. Universities
… This study explores how education, English discourse, and American cultures affect the identities of three female Korean graduate students in American institutions. The theoretical approach of this project integrated elements from sociocultural theory and feminist research methodology. The …
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Morroccan classroom discourse and critical discourse analysis : the impact of social and cultural practice
… through the analysis of their discursive practices. The work focuses specifically on interaction within Moroccan classrooms at the secondary school level, involving students aged between 12-14 years old. The data source consists of transcripts of audio-recordings of classroom lessons in …
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"Don't Try and Play Me Out!": The Performances and Possibilities of Digital Black Womanhood
<p>This dissertation explores the practices and possibilities of Black women’s identity performances on social media. Despite claims that the United States is now “post-racial,” in recent years there have been several examples of negative perceptions and hostile receptions to Black women’s …
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Language as a means of social control and resistance: discourse analysis in a prison setting
… were videotaped and analysed to investigate the discourse practices used in these sessions. I also explored the written discourse of the Cognitive Skills Handbook used by the offenders as a reference-text for running the classes. In my research, I have borrowed insights from Critical Discourse …
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Dropouts from literacy : an analysis of the meanings which adult learners attach to the fact of abandoning their training programme
… of being a misfit, or feeling uncomfortable with discourse practices in which they were expected to engage. Some had logistical difficulties in attending, such as transport or small children, but even greater than these was the fact that they had been disappointed. These learners believe the …
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“Learning Discourse”: Learning Biographies, Embedded Speech And Discoursal Identity In Students' Talk : The Learning Discourses Of German Business Studies Undergraduates
The main research question of this study is: What discourses of learning and identity do students develop in relation to their individual learning histories, their experience of learning and of knowledge-acquisition in the HE environment, and how critically reflective are students of the …
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SCHOOLED: Hiphop Composition at the Predominantly White University
… the widespread uptake of Black language and discourse practices by millennials and youth, all composition classes should teach Black language and discourse practices, including at PWIs. Chapter 2 positions critical reflexivity as the central methodological value of this mixed-methods research …
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Equity for Multilingual Learners: An Analysis of Long-Term English Learners’ Opportunities to Engage in Mathematical Discourse
… learners (LTELs) to engage in mathematical discourse in Algebra I classrooms. LTELs face persistent academic barriers, particularly in mathematics, where they demonstrate lower mathematic achievement, higher course repetition, and limited access to college-preparatory courses. This study …
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The Purpose and Value of Bilingual Education: A Critical, Linguistic Ethnographic Study of Two Rural Primary Schools in Mozambique
This is a qualitative, interpretive study of discourse on bilingual education in two rural primary schools in Mozambique. My aim was to explore how different views about the purpose and value of bilingual education were manifested in classroom discourse practices and how these views related to …
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Case Study of Participants in a Site-Based Secondary Mathematics Methods Course and Internship: Three Teachers in Transition
… of mathematics in 1989, those reform-oriented practices have not saturated mathematics teaching. Mathematics teacher educators continue to work with pre-service and practicing teachers to more fully implement the reform practices as described by NCTM. At times, this can take the form of …
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Uncovering Best Practices for Professional Learning: A Focus on Dialogic Discourse
… anchored in traditional teaching and learning practices. This study examined the relationship between professional learning programs and the quality of classroom instruction with a focus on implementing more collaborative and dialogic approaches to both student and professional learning. This …
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The role of academic writing in the study experience of undergraduate Business students
… experiences, staff expectations and changing discourse demands influenced students’ valuing of academic writing skills. The results of the study highlight the need for subject specialist teachers to explicitly ‘demystify’ (Lillis, 2000) discourse practices and expectations around student …
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Att förklara människan : Diskurser i populärvetenskapliga TV-program
… criteria. A five stage-model of critical discourse analysis has inspired the method which emphasizes the network of communicative practices in which the media text and representation are embedded. That includes media genre, production and narrative conventions as well as the wider …
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Beyond Words: A Post-Process Business Writing Pedagogy
… complexity and fluidity of actual workplace discourse: the historical and organizational factors that affect every discursive interaction, the personal preferences and individual relationships that determine success with each new dialogic engagement, the very nature of communication as …
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Exploring Giftedness: Implementing and Re-designing a Schoolwide Enrichment Model
… the implementation facilitated change to school practices. The theoretical perspective of constructive alternativism guided the study's methodological approach and the qualitative process to gather and analyse data relating to the perspectives of students and teachers. The key findings of the …
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