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Cano, Maribel; Castelló, Montserrat; Leitão, Selma – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2019
Introduction: The aim of this study was to analyze how oral argumentative strategies, argumentative sequences and interaction patterns relate to argumentative content and the required learning objectives. Method: Two different kinds of debates were analyzed. In the first, the participants defended one point of view, while in the second the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, College Freshmen, Debate, Oral Language
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Robson, Sue – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Debate about the balance between child- and adult-initiated activities in early childhood settings is long standing. This article reports a study of 29 children aged 4-5 years in a London state school, on the influences of child- and adult-initiated activities on children's self-regulation and metacognition. Whilst both contexts were supportive,…
Descriptors: Self Control, Metacognition, Role, Early Childhood Education
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Sert, Olcay; Walsh, Steve – Language and Education, 2013
This paper primarily investigates the interactional unfolding and management of "claims of insufficient knowledge" (Beach and Metzger 1997) in two English language classrooms from a multi-modal, conversation-analytic perspective. The analyses draw on a close, micro-analytic account of sequential organisation of talk as well as on various…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Classroom Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lang, Quek Choon – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
This study aims to replicate and extend a previous study which was conducted on primary school students' asynchronous online project-based learning. In this study, 276 high school students' participation and interaction in a project-based learning environment was mediated by an asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) tool. The students'…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Computer Mediated Communication, Interaction Process Analysis, Active Learning
Daniels, Sonja Gail – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation explores the perceptions and experiences of international students from China and Hong Kong with diversity courses. Using theoretical frameworks that examine the diversity classroom, informal interactional diversity, a diversity typology used to categorize diversity courses, intergroup peer relationships and student…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Acculturation, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
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Alcon, Eva; Guzman, Josep-Roderic – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1995
Studied the effect of content knowledge on learners' participation in interactions between nonnative speakers. Measures of participation included amount of talk, conversational fillers, back channels, topic moves, clarification questions, and confirmation and comprehension checks. Findings support the relationship between knowledge and…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries