NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Park, Yangjoo – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2015
This study is about graduate students' discourse practices in classroom text-based synchronous computer mediated discussions (SCMD). Cultural historical activity theory (in short, Activity Theory) is the primary theoretical lens through which the data are analyzed. Engeström's (1987) Activity System model among the various theoretical positions or…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology, Educational Practices
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Cheng, An – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2006
Academic criticism is defined in this paper as a statement which reflects a discrepancy between the stance of a researcher/author, on the one hand, and that of another researcher or the discourse community as a whole, on the other (Salager-Meyer & Alcaraz Ariza, 2003). Despite researchers' awareness of the potential difficulty academic criticism…
Descriptors: Researchers, Discourse Communities, Criticism, Literacy